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From Sundance to the Galway Film Fleadh… Celebrating Irish Film all over the world

A Date for Mad Mary Mom and Me Lost in France

Crash and Burn The Young Offenders Bobby Sands: 66 Days

Tiger Raid The Land of the Enlightened Moon Dogs

www.irishfilmboard.ie 2 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Introduction Contents

It’s that time of year again, and we are excited to once more showcase Galway as the beating heart of cinema in Ireland.

or one week in the summer the entire Irish film industry descends on our Sponsors 1 “Cannes on the Corrib”, alongside filmmakers, talent, financiers and more Introduction 3 Ffrom every corner of the world. They share ideas, collaborate and watch Booking & Merchandise Info 5 films in the uniquely welcoming, intimate and informal atmosphere that only Galway Film Fleadh Map 5 a Galway festival experience could provide. More important, however, are our Day by Day Schedule 6 audiences which come from Galway, all over Ireland, and from almost every Panel Discussions 9 point of the globe, to see the best in new Irish and world cinema. With a packed programme featuring more than 150 films from more than 30 countries around Women In Film 11 the world, including 16 world premieres, they will not be disappointed. Focus on Finland 13 We are thrilled to welcome some very special guests to the Fleadh this year, Cinema, Conflict & Human Rights 15 including legendary Irish director Jim Sheridan, actress Ruth Negga (who will be Mixtape: Music, Movies & Mavericks 15 the subject of our actors’ masterclass), and screenwriter Kirsten Smith (10 Things Eat, Drink, Love Film 17 I Hate About You, Legally Blonde) who will host our screenwriting masterclass. Galway is Film 17 There are many more filmmakers and film talent attending, though perhaps most Opening Film: Creative Control 19 exciting is the increased number of female-directed films and female filmmakers Out on Film 21 we present as part of our focus on Women in Film. Student Showcase 22 Programme highlights include a focus on Finnish cinema, featuring work that Way Out West 25 covers everything from cave-diving and cheerleading, to Sweden’s 17th century “queer Queen Kristina and her lady love” and desperate World War II romances. IFI Local Films for Local People: We also have a full menu of films looking at food and drink; a showcase of the Yet More Glimpses of Galway 27 best cinema made in, by and about Galway; a complete set-list of the best music The Duel of Wine 29 documentaries from around the world, and of course the best in short film, and New Irish Shorts 1 35 new Irish and world Cinema. New Irish Shorts 2 37 We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Arts Council of Ireland and Little Cinema Showcase 41 all of our Board, venues, sponsors, financiers, friends, and everyone else we have Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow & come to think of as part of our ‘Fleadhmily’ for helping us deliver this programme. All The Music Has Dissapeared 43 We are backing the bid. Let’s make Galway the European Capital of Culture! Atlantic 45 New Irish Shorts 3: Human Rights Documentaries 48 New Irish Shorts 4 49 On the Box 52 Re|Fresh 55 Creative England Shorts 59 New Irish Shorts 5 69 New Irish Shorts 6 71 See it – Be it! Gar O’Brien Miriam Allen Putting Women in the Picture 73 Programmer Managing Director After ’16 78 New Irish Shorts 7: Documentaries 85 New Irish Shorts 8: Animation (Including IFB Premieres) 88 Key An Afternoon with Jim Sheridan 91 W World Premiere FF First Feature All Ages One Minute Film Festival 92 Awards 94 E European Premiere C Competition Entry T Teens and up Closing Film: Sanctuary 97 I Irish Premiere QA Q&A T+ Older Teens and up Fleadh Credits 99 18 Mature Film Index 100

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28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Booking & Merchandise Information

All Bookings: 091 569 777 – Town Hall Box Office* (Open 10:00am – 7:30pm) Buy Online – www.galwayfilmfleadh.com *Telephone and personal bookings are subject to THT Refurbishment charge of 50 cent per ticket, and THT online bookings are subject to €1.00 charge per ticket

Ticket Prices: Opening Film (including reception) €20.00 Closing Film (including reception) €20.00 Daytime Screening (before 17.00) €9.00 (€8.00 Conc.) Evening Screening (at and after 17.00) €10.00 (€9.00 Conc.) Way Out West €5.00 On the Box (per film) €5.00 After ‘16 Shorts €5.00

Special Events: IFI Local Films for Local People €7.50 The Duel of Wine €30.00 Little Cinema Showcase €8.00 Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow Morning And All Music Has Disappeared €10.00 Atlantic €12.00 An Afternoon with Jim Sheridan €10.00 One Minute Film Festival €5.00

Ticket Packages: 5 Ticket Daytime Deal (excluding special events) €35.00 5 Ticket Evening Deal (excluding special events) €45.00 Please note that you will need to specify your chosen films at time of purchase..

Season Ticket: Participation fee per person for the Fleadh is €175.00. This will entitle you to all screenings (except opening and closing films, and special events) subject to availability, delegate bag, Fleadh t-shirt and a festival programme.

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Wed 6 July Town Hall Theatre Student Showcase Fire at Sea 10.30 / p22 13.00 / p23 Cinemobile Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Fukushima, Mon Amour Little Men 11.00 / p23 13.15 / p24 15.15 / p26 Town Hall Studio On Football Food & Shelter Uncle Howard 11.30 / p23 13.30 / p24 15.30 / p26 Radisson Blu Hotel Way Out West 14.00 / p25

Thu 7 July Town Hall Theatre New Irish Shorts 1 New Irish Shorts 2 10.30 / p35 12.30 / p37 Cinemobile Awaiting The Mine The Wall 10.15 / p34 12.15 / p36 14.15 / p38 Town Hall Studio Barista Those Who Jump My Friend From the Park 10.30 / p34 12.30 / p36 14.30 / p38 Nun’s Island Theatre

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Fri 8 July Town Hall Theatre New Irish Shorts 3: New Irish Shorts 4 Land of the Enlightened Human Rights Documentaries 10.00 / p48 12.00 / p49 14.00 / p53 Cinemobile Armi Alive! Diving into the Unknown Absolution 10.15 / p48 12.15 / p53 14.15 / p55 Town Hall Studio Isonomia Fís na Fuiseoige The War Against Women Deargdhúil: Anatomy in Eastern Congo of Passion 10.00 / p52 11.30 / p52 13.00 / p52 14.30 / p52 Galway Rowing Club Short Films Panel 14.30 / p9

Huston School of Re|Fresh Film & Digital Media 14.00 / p55

Sat 9 July Town Hall Theatre New Irish Shorts 5 New Irish Shorts 6 History’s Future 10.00 / p69 12.00 / p71 14.00 / p75 Cinemobile Author: The JT LeRoy Story Revolutions The Girl King 10.15 / p70 12.15 / p72 14.15 / p74 Town Hall Studio Hotel Dallas Yarn Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land 10.30 / p70 12.30 / p73 14.30 / p74 Radisson Blu Hotel

Galway Rowing Club A StrongerVoice See it – Be it! Putting for Women Women in the Picture 11.00 / p9 15.00 / p73

Sun 10 July Town Hall Theatre New Irish Shorts 7: New Irish Shorts 8: Short Animation An Afternoon with Jim Sheridan Short Documentaries (incl. IFB World Premiere Animations) (incl. “In America” screening) 10.00 / p85 12.00 / p88 15.00 / p91 Cinemobile These Daughters of Mine The Midwife Crash and Burn 10.15 / p87 12.00 / p87 14.15 / p90 Town Hall Studio Rara InnSæi – the Sea within Deconstructing 12.30 / p90 Dani García 10.30 / p87 14.30 / p90 Town Hall Theatre Bar Irish Filmmakers Panel 12.00 / p9

Please Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the times of films may change at short notice. These changes will be posted on the Fleadh website and on the noticeboard in the Town Hall Theatre. Strands Human Rights Galway is Film Eat, Drink, Love Film Focus on Finland

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Opening Film: Creative Control Holding the Man 19.30 / p19 22.00 / p21

IFI Local Films for Local People: Hunt for the Wilderpeople Property of the State The Randomer Yet more glimpses of Galway 16.00 / p27 18.00 / p28 20.00 / p31 22.00 / p33 Little Men The Last King The Commune Weiner 15.15 / p26 17.15 / p27 19.15 / p29 21.30 / p30 Uncle Howard A Song For You: Dead Along the Way Suntan The Austin City Limits Story 15.30 / p26 17.30 / p28 19.30 / p30 21.30 / p33 The Duel of Wine 19.00 / p29

Eyes of a Thief L’Accabadora In View Tiger Raid 16.00 / p38 18.00 / p39 20.00 / p43 22.00 / p47 Summertime Rebel Rossa Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow & The Automatic Hate All The Music Has Disappeared 16.15 / p39 18.15 / p41 20.15 / p43 22.15 / p47 My Friend From the Park All Eyes and Ears Outcasts by Choice South The Plants 14.30 / p38 16.30 / p39 18.30 / p41 20.30 / p45 22.30 / p47 Little Cinema Showcase 19.00 / p41 Atlantic 20.30 / p45

Bobby Sands: 66 Days A Date for Mad Mary The Young Offenders A Dark Song 16.00 / p57 18.00 / p61 20.00 / p63 22.00 / p65 Creative England Shorts Brakes Lost in France collective:unconscious 16.15 / p59 18.15 / p62 20.15 / p64 22.15 / p67 The Judas Twice Shy Born and Reared Barash Iscariot Lunch 16.00 / p52 18.30 / p62 20.30 / p64 22.30 / p67 World Cinema Panel 16.30 / p9

It’s Not Yet Dark Mom & Me The Siege of Jadotville Cardboard Gangsters 16.00 / p77 18.00 / p79 20.00 / p81 22.00 / p83 Cheer Up The Weather Inside Moon Dogs The Alchemist Cookbook 16.15 / p76 18.15 / p80 20.15 / p80 22.15 / p82 Staid A Poem Is A Naked Person Aloys Kiki 16.30 / p76 18.30 / p80 20.30 / p82 22.30 / p82 After ’16 18.00 / p78 See it – Be it! Putting Women in the Picture 15.00 / p73

An Afternoon with Jim Sheridan Awards Closing Film: Sanctuary (incl. “In America” screening) 15.00 / p91 19.00 / p94 20.30 / p97 Further Beyond 24 Weeks 16.15 / p92 18.15 / p93 One Minute We Are moving – Memories Film Festival of Miss Moriarty 16.30 / p92 18.30 / p93

Please Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the times of films may change at short notice. These changes will be posted on the Fleadh website and on the noticeboard in the Town Hall Theatre. We regret that Town Hall Studio is not wheelchair accessible. Mix Tape: Music, Movies… Out On Film Shorts Special Event Strands

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Talking Film: Panels and Discussions

uring each festival we present Short Films Panel A Stronger Voice a series of panel discussions Fri 8 July / Galway Rowing Club /14.30 for Women Dthat will interest filmgoers After another strong year which saw Sat 9 July / Galway Rowing Club / 11.00 and filmmakers alike. Held in a number Ireland box well above its weight This year the Fleadh is placing a of venues around the Fleadh, these internationally in the short film arena particular emphasis on women in film. panels are free so that everybody has (with Stutterer claiming Oscar glory), We are screening more films than a chance to learn from the experiences we are proud to present our first ever before from female directors, ever panel dedicated to emerging of our filmmakers. Audience members are presenting two female-led and established short filmmakers. masterclasses (Ruth Negga for acting are encouraged to contribute and most Following the panel there will be and Kirsten Smith for screenwriting) panels will have a Q&A element. Topics an opportunity for discussion, and have invited a record number of cover issues pertaining to the craft, debate and networking for anyone female directors to the Fleadh. This such as the art and commerce of the interested in the art and commerce panel will feature a mix of Irish and short film, and a series of panels on of short filmmaking. International filmmaking talent, and is women in film and much more. held ia association with WFT.ie. World Cinema Panel See also: “See it – Be it! Putting Participants to be announced. Fri 8 July /Galway Rowing Club / 16.30 Women in the Picture” (see p. 73). Please see galwayfilmfleadh.com For the last 28 years the Fleadh has for details. showcased some of the best in world Irish Filmmakers Panel cinema to Galway audiences but, as Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre Bar / importantly, each year we are proud 12.00 to also showcase Galway to some of Irish film has had an amazing year and the best filmmakers from around the a cursory glance at our lineup suggests world. This panel will unite a diverse that there is plenty more to come panel of filmmakers to discuss the from Irish film over next 12 months, international aspect of cinema. from both established and upcoming directors. This panel will present an overview of the state of Irish cinema with some of the best Irish film talent.

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n 2015, women accounted for a mere 9% of film directors, up 2% from 2014 but identical with 1998. In other roles, women comprised 11% of writers, I26% of producers, 20% of executive producers, 22% of editors, and 6% of cinematographers. This is obviously not good enough, not just in terms of representation in the film industry but also in the types of stories reflected on our screens. A 2016 Equality and Human Rights Commission Report notes that “A male dominated industry leads to male focused films, leaving women not only under-represented amongst directors but under-represented in the art and stories themselves.” This year the Fleadh has committed to pushing female film talent and female- centred stories into the foreground. We are proud to announce that 38.5% of our World Cinema and Documentary programme is made up from films directed by women. While this is a good start, and well above the industry average, our commitment to achieving diversity among our filmmakers will be an ongoing process until 51% of films (or more) are made by women. With this in mind we are excited to present two masterclasses by leading female film talent. Limerick-raised Ruth Negga, fresh from the Cannes success of Jeff Nichol’s Oscar-tipped Loving and her starring role in AMC’s new comic- book adaptation Preacher, will be the subject of this year’s acting masterclass. Meanwhile Kirsten Smith, screenwriter of 10 things I Hate About You and Legally Blonde, will be on hand to deliver our screenwriters masterclass. Similarly we are excited to present a series of panels and discussions that will explore the role of women in film. These include “See it – Be it! Putting Women in the Picture” (see p. 73) a panel of women filmmakers, representatives from the Irish Film board and the equality committee of the Writers Guild and the Screen Directors Guild which will shine a spotlight on women in the Irish film industry, and our own Women in Film panel (see p. 9) which will introduce you to some of the amazing filmmakers and films at the Fleadh this year. Films directed by women in the 28th Fleadh: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (p23) Collective:Unconscious (p67) Fukushima Mon Amour (p24) Barash (p67) Awaiting (p34) Revolutions* (p72) My Friend from the Park (p38) Yarn* (p73) Eyes of a Thief* (p38) History’s Future* (p75) Summertime (p39) Cheer Up* (p76) All Eyes and Ears* (p39) The Weather Inside* (p80) Outcasts by Choice* (p41) Kiki (p82) Deargdhúil: These Daughters of Mine (p87) Anatomy of Passion* (p52) Rara (p87) The War against Women InnSaei – the Sea within* (p90) in Eastern Congo* (p52) Further Beyond* (p92) The Judas Iscariot Lunch* (p52) 24 Weeks* (p93) Brakes* (p62) We are Moving – Memories Born and Reared* (p64) of Miss Moriarty* (p93) An asterisk denotes a director’s attendance at the screening. booking 091 569777 11 THE MINE ABSOLUTION dir. Aleksi Salmenperä, produced by Annika dir. Petri Kotwica, produced by Minna Virtanen for Vertigo, Sucksdorff and Aleksi Bardy for Helsinki-filmi, co-producers Jackie Larkin and Lesley McKimm for Newgrange sales: The Yellow Affair Pictures, sales: Media Luna

THE MIDWIFE THE GIRL KING dir. Antti J. Jokinen, produced by Markus Selin and Jukka dir. Mika Kaurismäki, produced by Mika Kaurismäki for Marianna Films, Helle for Solar Films, sales: Picture Tree International co-producers Anna Stratton for Triptych Media Inc., Rainer Kölmel for Starhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, Arnie Gelbart for Galafllm Inc., Martin Persson for Anagram Film & TV AB, sales: The Yellow Affair

ARMI ALIVE! CHEER UP! dir. Jörn Donner, produced by Mark Lwoff dir. Christy Garland, produced by Liisa and Misha Jaari for Bufo Oy Juntunen for napafilms, sales: Wide House FINNISH FOCUS AT THE GALWAY FILM FLEADH DIVING INTO THE 2016 UNKNOWN dir. Juan Reina, produced by Juho Harjula for Monami Agency, co-producer fuglene, sales: Films Transit

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Focus on Finland

The Girl King

The Mine p36 inland has a rich and storied cinematic pedigree. Like Ireland, it boxes well Armi Alive! p48 above its weight when it comes to the international film scene. Finland’s Diving into the Unknown p53 Fcinematic output is well regarded at home – it boasts one of the best Absolution p55 domestic box-office takes in Europe – but films from Finland also travel to cinemas The Girl King p74 and festivals all over the world, and it is something of a powerhouse when it Cheer Up p76 comes to international co-production. This year, the Fleadh is proud to collaborate The Midwife p87 with The Finnish Film Foundation to shine a spotlight on some of the best in contemporary Finnish cinema. Features include Finnish film legend Mika Kaurismäki’s The Girl King, an energetic historical biopic that puts a modern slant on the story of Queen Kristina, who scandalized Sweden with her rebellious political and sexual behavior; The Mine, a tense environmental thriller that shows just how easy it is to be corrupt despite good intentions; The Midwife, a visually sumptuous historical thriller about a wartime romance between a Finnish nurse and a Nazi officer; and Armi Alive!, Oscar-winner Jörn Donner’s wonderful “meta film” which centres around the preparation of a play about Armi Ratia, a famous Finnish design entrepreneur who struggled against her family, banks, and conventional ideas of beauty in the 60s and 70s. The Irish-Finnish co-production Absolution is a tight domestic thriller in which a hit-and-run accident triggers a nightmarish spiral of guilt and revenge. On the documentary front we are proud to present Diving into the Unknown, a remarkable story of a life-threatening mission and unconditional friendship, in which a group of Finnish cave divers try to bring their dead friends home. Finally, the tragi-comic documentary Cheer Up follows Finland’s worst cheerleading team as they struggle with teenage angst and constant failure.

This focus is presented in association with The Finnish Film Foundation.

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e are firm believers that cinema not only has the power to shed light on abuses of human rights, and the brave work done by those who Wstrive to better this situation, but also the power to affect real change Eyes of a Thief in the world. This year’s programme of Human Rights Cinema focuses on some of the most pressing concerns from around the world today, including the current Fire at Sea p23 European refugee crisis, the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, and the damage Those Who Jump p37 caused by conflicts in Israel/Palestine and the North of Ireland. The Wall p38 Titles include the subtle and powerful documentary Fire at Sea, in which life Eyes of a Thief p38 on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of refugees; and Those New Irish Shorts 3: Who Jump which provides a raw glimpse into the lives of African migrants hoping Human Rights Docs p48 to make it into Europe by scaling a barrier between Morocco and the outlying Land of the Enlightened p53 Spanish city of Melilla. Eyes of a Thief, meanwhile, is a thriller exploring the effects Born and Reared p64 of physical and psychological violence on the people compelled to live with it, Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land p74 while Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land follows the titular photographer as he travels through Israel and Palestine capturing a landscape divided by walls and barbed wire. Mental and physical walls also play a big part in Born and Reared (which explores male identity in post-conflict Northern Ireland) and The Wall (which juxtaposes sectarian divisions in North Korea and Northern Ireland). Land of the Enlightened is a seamless blend of fiction and documentary focusing on the beauty of war-tormented Afghanistan. And our Human Rights strand of short documentaries offers snapshots from conflict zones, border crossings and refugee camps.

Mixtape: Music, Movies and Mavericks

he Fleadh was founded with something of a fiercely independent, DIY, and dare we say it, punk rock attitude at its core. And so it’s with a great sense Tof excitement that we present this year’s selection of music documentaries featuring some of the most fearlessly independent spirits in music and music film. Outcasts by Choice follows The Outcasts, who formed in Belfast in 1977, kick- A Song for You: started the Northern Punk Explosion, and rejected sectarian violence. A Song The Austin City Limits Story for You: The Austin City Limits Story takes us inside the longest running music show in TV history. It’s packed with the greatest music from Texas and beyond, A Song for You: with performances from Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ray Charles, Beck, The Austin City Limits Story p28 Alabama Shakes, and Radiohead. Outcasts by Choice p41 Imagine Waking Up One Morning And All Music Has Disappeared follows one Imagine Waking Up One Morning of the most enigmatic and uncompromising figures in contemporary music, Bill And All Music Has Disappeared p43 Drummond, as he searches for new voices for his choir – in the open fields or in a Lost in France p64 factory, in a classroom or in a pub. It is a journey towards a “ground zero” in terms A Poem is a Naked Person p80 of music – a point at which we can try to invent it anew, together, innocent... Featuring Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, The Delgados, Arab Strap and more, Lost in France follows fan-favourite Scottish record label Chemikal Underground Records as they re-live the experience of travelling to a once-off gig in rural France in the 90s. Finally, A Poem is a Naked Person is Les Blank’s free-form documentary about singer-songwriter Leon Russell. Filmed between 1972 and 1974, this singular film has attained legendary status – but it has not been released until now.

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e are proud to present a tastefully curated menu of some of the most mouth-watering and thought-provoking food and drink films from Waround the world. This strand celebrates Galway’s emerging status as the culinary capital of the Wild Atlantic Way, as well as challenging the way we think about food and sustainability. Barista To begin, we recommend a pairing of vino and kino, with a synaesthetic screening of The Duel of Wine, a humourous little number of good vintage which The Duel of Wine p29 stars real-life celebrity sommelier Charlie Arturaola. Both he and producer Lino Barista p35 Pujia will be on hand to introduce new wines during the screening. Atlantic p45 Galway filmmaker Risteard Ó Domhnaill provides our main course, with a Deconstructing Dani García p90 special screening of his film Atlantic in Galway Harbour. Guests will be welcomed with a reception featuring local craft beer and local seafood served by Stephane Griesbach of Gannet Fishmongers. Following the screening, there will be a Q & A with O’Domhnaill, Griesbach and Michael O’Meara, author of Sea Gastronomy. After this you may need a digestif! Barista introduces the world to the competitive espresso-making circuit, profiling five enterprising young baristas as they vie for a national title. Join us for our own baritsa competition at Badger and Dodo at 4.30pm on Thursday. Finally, it’s time to pay compliments to the chef, and chef Dani García is ready to welcome you into his kitchen... presuming he still has one. Deconstructing Dani García follows the titular Spanish haute cuisine chef as he reinvents himself following the closure of his two-Michelin-star restaurant. Bain taitneamh as do bhéile!

Galway is Film

s well as bringing the best in world cinema and film talent to Galway, we delight in showcasing Galway to the world of film. Aside from its Areputation as the cultural heart of Ireland, Galway is very much a city of film. One of only 8 UNESCO-designated Cities of Film worldwide, the development of the film sector in Galway has been nothing short of staggering – it’s worth over Sanctuary €72 million to the local economy and provides over 600 full-time jobs. First off, we are proud to present work from west-of-Ireland-based filmmakers Way Out West p22 in the Way Out West short film programme. Similarly, we welcome the return of IFI Local Films for Local People: the Galway Film Centre’s One Minute Film Festival, and we will once again screen Yet More Glimpses of Galway p27 a “best of” showcase from Galway’s premiere grassroots short film event, Little Little Cinema Showcase p41 Cinema Galway. Atlantic p45 The Irish Film Institute returns with a whole new diverse programme of films One Minute Film Festival p92 about Galway from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Amateur films of holidays in the west Sanctuary p97 of Ireland play alongside 1950s public information films featuring Dr. Noel Browne and the building of TB sanatoria; the life of a Connemara farmer in 1941 contrasts with aerial footage of Ireland by Scottish aviatrix Winnie Drinkwater. We will also present a very special screening of local filmmaker Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s Atlantic, which examines the political, economic and environmental threats to the Atlantic Ocean. (See above for more details.) Our closing film, Sanctuary, is a wonderful, unique feature from Galway’s Blue Teapot Company. Employing a large cast of actors with intellectual disabilities, the film tackles issues such as the right to intimacy.

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Opening Film

Creative Control TUESDAY 5JULY

Tue 5 July / Town Hall Theatre / 19.30 he setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. David (writer / director 2015 / USA / 97min Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive Tdeveloping a high-profile marketing campaign for a new generation of “Augmented Reality” glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette (Zora Zehetner), he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim (Dan Gill) with his sexy girlfriend Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen) – and so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, David is forced to deal with an impending collision of his public, private and imaginary lives.

Winner: Special Jury Award for Visual Excellence, SXSW 2015

Director / Actor / Writer Benjamin Dickinson will attend.

Director Benjamin Dickinson Cast Benjamin Dickinson, “Smart, funny and wonderfully filmed, this movie Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia about the jaded marketeer of virtual reality glasses Rasmussen, Reggie Watts, Paul Manza, is the movie Steve Jobs should have been.” Gavin McInnes, Jake Lodwick — The Guardian Script Benjamin Dickinson, Micah Bloomberg Producers Craig Shilowich, In association with Melody C. Roscher, Mark de Pace, Zachary Mortensen I C QA T+

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TUESDAY 5 JULY 21 5 – 10 July 2016 . In 1973, bar-owner , which uncovered the drag scene and follows a schoolgirl as she struggles is a sumptuous and unapologetic romance set , which explores the thriving voguing culture that is a remarkable true-life love story of Timothy Conigrave and is the story of New filmmaker York Howard Brookner, whose nce again we are proud to bringprogramme a of the best in LGBTQI cinema from around the world to our audiences in Galway. kick We things off with the European premiere One of Jewel’s Catch im and John fell in love and embarked on a forbidden high school romance that was to last a lifetime. Together they conquered countless prejudices and challenges to become champions of gay rights. Finally, 25 years after Burning Is Paris Catherine Corsini’s Summertime Uncle Howard Holding The Man The Holding sturdy support as the fathers...2015 is turning into into turning is fathers...2015 the as support sturdy a heart-breaking, sensitive, poignant portrait of love love of portrait poignant sensitive, a heart-breaking, provide Pearce Guy and LaPaglia Anthony loss. and film” Australian for year a stellar painfully towards liberation from her family. She finds salvation in the arms of a new arrival at school who sets her heart beating. voguing balls of 1980s New York, this celebrated underground culture pulses with fresh energy once again in Kiki in early 70s France. Farmers’ daughter Delphine moves to Paris to break free from the shackles of her family. Her encounter with Carole who is actively involved in the stirrings of the feminist movement turns their lives upside down. Likewise, albeit set in contemporary Israel, Barash provides an outlet for self-expression for LGBTQ youth at-risk of colour. work (buried in William S. Burroughs’ bunker for 30 years) captured the late 70s and early 80s cultural revolution. In this revelatory documentary, Brookner’s nephew, Aaron, explores the legacy of a life cut short by AIDS. Jewel Thais-Williams, created a disco for those seeking refuge from both racial discrimination and homophobia in the black community. It was one of the first black gay clubs in America, and everyone from Sammy to Chaka Davis Jr. Khan performed behind its darkened windows. Tues 5 July / Town Hall 5 JulyTues Theatre / Town / 22.00 2015 / Australia / 127min Holding theMan Out On Film: On Out LGBTQI Cinema John Caleo and their enduring love for each other has been immortalised in Tim’s own cult classic memoir and Murphy’s in Tommy award winning stage which play, has now been adapted for the screen. T O — Jim Schembri, 3 AW Schembri, — Jim “Director Neil Armfield sidesteps melodrama to deliver deliver to melodrama sidesteps Armfield Neil “Director T+ Kylie Du Fresne Neil Armfield Neil Tommy Murphy Tommy Ryan Craig Corr, Scott, IC booking 091 569777 Producer Geoffrey Rush, Kerry Fox, Guy Pearce, Sarah Snook, Anthony LaPaglia, Script Cast Director World Cinema World Holding the Man p21 Man the Holding p26 Howard Uncle Summertime p39 Barash p67 Kiki p82 Kiki 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 28th Galway Film Fleadh Student Showcase

Wed 6th July / Town Hall Theatre / 10.30

The Student Showcase is a programme of films produced, directed, acted and animated by Irish students from educational institutions and screen training bodies from Ireland and the UK. This non-competitive category contains a mix of documentary, live action drama and animation. WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Roll Camera Strangers Pat

Aoibhinn and the Bear All the Time in the World When The Butcher Stopped Ordering Meat Roll Camera What’s The Point Pat A documentary exploring the A short film based on a true story of a Pat, a bachelor farmer, began filming representation of disability in the Irish girl overcoming depression. people in his community following the screen media industry. Directors Eleanor Bourke, Jennie Kelly, death of his father. Pat affectionately Director Alannah Murray Claire McLoughlin, Sarah Peters, reflects over his archives. Producer Jessica Drew Meghan Ryan Director Katie McDonagh Institution DKIT Producer Jennie Kelly Producer GMIT Institution IADT Institution GMIT Aoibhinn and the Bear A woman suffering with severe anxiety Strangers When The Butcher and depression isolates herself from Torn from his family and faced with Stopped Ordering Meat the outside world. Her childhood teddy losing them for good, Kev battles Michael Quirke has been running an bear seems to be the help she needs. between the destructive path he has open wood carving workshop for over Director Kieran Burke found himself on and the happy life he fifty years. We spend a day with him to Producer Peggy-Anne Knight once knew. learn about his unusual life Institution Limerick College of Further Directors Rebecca Thompson Director Laura Gaynor Education Producer Irish Film Academy Producer Laura Gaynor Institution Irish Film Academy Institution IADT FISHWITCH A stop motion fairytale in which an All the Time in the World aquatic creature tries to win the heart John contemplates life’s stages from of a sea witch. childhood to old age, as “all the time in Director Adrienne Dowling the world” becomes “none of the time Producer Helene Sifre in the world”. Institution National Film and Television Director Ciarán Mc Namara School, UK Producer Ashley Turbett Institution DIT

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Feature Documentary Feature Documentary Feature Documentary

Maya On Football Fire at Sea WEDNESDAY 6JULY Angelou: And O futebol Fuoco Am Mare Still I Rise

Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 11.00 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 11.30 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Theatre / 13.00 2016 / USA / 114min 2015 / Spain, Chile / 70min 2016 / Italy, France / 108min

Referred to as “a redwood tree, with Sergio and his father, Simão, haven’t Samuele is 12 years old and lives on an deep roots in American culture”, Maya seen each other for over 20 years. On island in the middle of the sea. He goes Angelou gave people the freedom to the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Sergio to school, loves shooting his slingshot think about their history in a way they returns to his hometown, São Paulo, and going hunting. He likes land games, never had before. As a singer, dancer, hoping to watch the games with Simão even though everything around him activist, poet, and writer she inspired as they used to when he was a kid. speaks of the sea and the men, women generations with lyrical, modern It seems like the perfect plan for a and children who try to cross it to get to African-American thought. father-son reunion: a whole month his island. But his is not an island like the “Maya Angelou was [...] the “...makes adroit use of the “Italian director Gianfranco closest thing that American beautiful game’s resonance Rosi creates an has to a cultural saint. This in people’s lives as a route unsentimental documentary [...] canonizes her in cinema.” in to a personal story.” about the carnage and — Screen Daily — Eye For Film despair as Lampedusans struggle to deal with Dr. Angelou’s words are interwoven together, their schedule based on the desperate refugees” with rare and intimate archival World Cup calendar. But as the days go — The Guardian photographs and videos, which by, their relationship starts to wander show the hidden moments of her into unknown territory and their exuberant life during some of America’s pact to watch the entire tournament others – its name is Lampedusa and it most defining moments – from her together turns into a dangerous ritual. is the most symbolic border of Europe, upbringing in the Depression-era South, crossed by thousands of migrants in to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana, to Official selection: Locarno IFF 2015 search of freedom over the last 20 her inaugural speech for President Bill Official selection: Göteborg FF 2016 years. Clinton. Her indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her. Winner: Golden Bear, Berlinale 2016

Official selection: Sundance FF 2016 Official selection: Full Frame Documentary Festival 2016

Director Gianfranco Rosi Director Bob Hercules, Director Sergio Oksman Producers Donatella Palermo, Rita Coburn Whack Script Carlos Muguiro, Sergio Oksman Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou, camille Producers Rita Coburn Whack, Producers Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Laemle, Roberto Ciccutto, Paolo Del Bob Hercules, Jay Alix, Una Jackman Sergio Oksman Brocca, Martine Saada, Oliver Pere I C T I C T I C T

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World Cinema World Cinema WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Fukushima, Mon Amour Food & Shelter Grüße aus Fukushima Techo Y Comida

Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 13.15 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 13.30 2016 / Germany / 104min 2015 / Spain / 90min

Marie escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with Rocío (Natalia de Molina, in A Goya award-winning the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to the performance) is a young single mother who has been without survivors of the 2011 nuclear disaster, some still living in work for three and a half years. She is on the edge of a emergency shelters. She soon realizes she‘s unsuited to the precipice, living day-to-day off odd jobs and the generosity task of making tragedy less wearisome. Instead of running of her neighbours. As she fights to keep her apartment she away, she decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi, struggles to provide for her eight-year-old son Adrián. When the last geisha of Fukushima, who, of her own accord, has Rocío’s gas canister runs out or when her water is turned off, decided to retreat back to her ruined house in the formerly she is faced with an impossible decision: if she replaces them, radioactive Exclusion Zone. there is no money to feed her son.

“Lensed in poetic black-and-white [...] and “An empathetic but unvarnished account of peppered with absurdist cross-cultural a single mother’s subsistence at the sharp gags, Fukushima, mon amour offers a edge of Spain’s economic crisis which evokes refreshingly quirky perspective on a heavy the films of Ken Loach at his most socially subject.” — Variety aware.” — The Hollywood Reporter

Winner: CICAE Art Cinema Award (Panorama), Berlinale 2016 There is an understated naturalism to the performances in Winner: Heiner Carow Prize, Berlinale 2016 this perfect storm of misfortune. De Molina’s haunting central performance is painfully expressive and gives a somber, Presented in co-operation with Goethe-Institut Irland. unsentimental but compelling X-ray view of a southern Europe in crisis.

Official selection: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2015

Director Juan Miguel del Castillo Director Doris Dörrie Cast Natalia De Molina, Jaime López, Mariana Cordero, Cast Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Gaspar Campuzano, Mercedes Hoyos, Manuel Tallafé, Nami Kamata, Moshe Cohen Natalia Roig, Montse Torrent Script Doris Dörrie Script Juan Miguel del Castillo Producers Harry Kügler, Molly von Fürstenberg Producers Alfred Santapau, Germán García I C T I FF C T+

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New Irish Shorts Way Out West Wed 6 July / Radisson Blu Hotel / 14.00

This programme of shorts showcases film from the west of Ireland. This non-competitive category contains a mix of documentary, live action drama and animation. This programme features work from debut filmmakers and more established directors. T WEDNESDAY 6JULY

The Last Man Tearmann (Sanctuary) Guth na Farraige

Under Open Skies Stoopid Sheep Galway Street Club

The Last Man Tearmann (Sanctuary) Guth na Farraige Somewhere in the distant future. A poet ponders existence at an ancient An strainséir mistéíreach. Cara atá A soldier’s journey home. His greatest burial site which has been a prominent bailithe amú. Nuair a thiocfhas do am, battle. It will test him to his very soul. place of homage to our ancestors since an mbeidh tú ábalta guth na bhfarraige Director Nigel O’Brien pagan and early Christian eras. a sheachaint? Produces Kenneth O’Sullivan, Director Maureen Butler Director Rob Stephens Frances Jones Producer Daniel Butler Producer Leah McNicholas

Under Open Skies Stoopid Sheep Galway Street Club An affectionate look at the history of A herd of sheep decide to make an The heart and soul of Galway city is GAA handball amidst the backdrop impossible leap. manifest in this energetic collective of of the creation and subsequent Director Simon Riley buskers from all around the country dereliction of the countless alleys that Producer Simon Riley and the world. Combining their efforts, scatter the landscape of Ireland. they bring something very special to Director Ben Jones the streets of Galway. Producer Heather Grace Mills Director Daniel Coogan Producer Daniel Coogan

Ar Scáth le Chéile Galway brothers, separated by time and class, struggle to pierce the veil of their isolation during a chance reunion. Director Aisha Tyler Producer Emmett Hughes

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World Cinema Feature Documentary WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Little Men Uncle Howard

Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 15.15 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 15.30 2016 / USA / 85min 2016 / USA, UK / 96min

Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present. New with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash York filmmaker Howard Brookner died of AIDS in 1989, whilst Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather’s funeral, and the making his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work, unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at which captured the late 70s and early 80s cultural revolution, risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, was buried in William S. Burroughs’ bunker for 30 years. Now, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), and as part of a personal journey, his nephew Aaron unearths Tony’s mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become Howard’s filmmaking legacy and the memory of everything contentious. he was.

“Ira Sachs’ Little Men is a little movie “Aaron Brookner’s documentary profiles his brimming with little truths about uncle, a regrettably short-lived leader in modern life.” — Variety indie New York filmmaking of the 1980s.” — Variety

Little Men is directed by Ira Sachs (Love is Strange) who “This study of documentarian Howard Brookner is a also co-wrote the screenplay with Mauricio Zacharias (Love family relic,” writes Andrew Pulver in The Guardian, “a is Strange). The film stars the Academy® Award Nominated snapshot of New York’s 1980s gay scene and an unearthing Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), BAFTA nominated of quirky cinematic detritus.” Jennifer Ehle (50 Shades of Grey), Paulina Garcia (Gloria) and newcomers Michael Barbieri and Theo Taplitz. Official selection: Sundance Film Festival 2016

Official selection: Sundance Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Berlinale 2016

Director Ira Sachs Cast Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Jennifer Ehle, Greg Kinnear, Paulina García Director Aaron Brookner Script Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias Script Aaron Brookner Producers Lucas Joaquin, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Producer Paula Vaccaro I C T I C T+

26 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Special Event IFI Local Films for Local People: Yet More Glimpses of Galway Wed 6 July / Town Hall Theatre / 16.00 1930s - 1970s / Various / 90min

he Irish Film Institute returns to the Fleadh with a whole new programme of sound and silent films about Galway from the IFI Irish Film Archive. TAmateur films of holidays in the west of Ireland play alongside public information films featuring Dr. Noel Browne and the building of TB sanatoria in WEDNESDAY 6JULY the 1950s; films from the National Museum of Ireland document domestic and agricultural crafts throughout the county in the 1960s; a Welsh crew investigates the scourge of emigration from Carna and other parts of the Gaeltacht; while The Story of Michael Flaherty celebrates the primitive life of a Connemara farmer in 1941. To Ireland by Air is a film from Scotland’s Moving Image Archive made by Scottish aviatrix Winnie Drinkwater in 1933, featuring an extended touch-down in Galway.

The silent films will be accompanied on fiddle by Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile.

“A rich treasure trove of stunning archival footage of Galway through the years with musical accompaniment.”

Directors Various Producers Various

World Cinema The Last King Birkebeinerne

Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 17.15 2015 / Norway / 98min

he year is 1204. Norway is torn apart by a Civil war. With the help of the Birch Legs, the Norwegian king is fighting for survival against the church’s TBishopsmen, who will use any means available to obtain victory. While the king is on his death bed, his only remaining heir is under guard in secret: a “...get ready for swordfights on skis, breathtaking chase scenes on skis [...] sweeping, snowy, Warren Miller-like vistas [...] all wrapped up in this two-fisted, red-bearded, hairy-chested, fur-clad hunk of history.” — Seattle IFF

boy who half the kingdom wants dead, but two men will sacrifice everything to protect. The two Birch Legs warriors Skjervald and Torstein set on a perilous Director Nils Gaup journey through the harsh Norwegian winter landscape in order to rescue the Cast Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, two-year-old future king from a terrible fate Pål Sverre Hagen, Thorbjørn Harr, Nikolaj Lie Kaas Official selection: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Script Ravn Laneskog Official selection: Miami International Film Festival 2016 Producers Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae Official selection: Seattle International Film Festival 2016 IC T

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Feature Documentry World Cinema WEDNESDAY 6JULY

A Song For You: Hunt for the The Austin City Limits Story Wilderpeople Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 17.30 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Theatre / 18.00 2016 / USA / 96mins 2016 / New Zealand / 93min

Packed wall to wall with the greatest music from Texas Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets and beyond, with performances from Willie Nelson, Stevie a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds Ray Vaughan, Ray Charles, Beck, Alabama Shakes, and himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Radiohead, A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story is Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a music to the ears of fans everywhere. This film highlights tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, the PBS series’ evolution, proving that after 40 years, ACL is both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national more relevant now than ever before. Featuring interviews manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face with dozens of artists and fans, and untold insights their options: go out in a blaze of glory or overcome their from long-time producer Terry Lickona, A Song For You differences and survive as a family. “Featuring memorable performances from “In an age of branded films, it’s such a country stars like Willie Nelson, and gone- relief to stumble upon a film like this. but-not-forgotten legends (Ray Charles, Filmmaking this fresh, this vibrant, and Townes Van Zandt) to contemporary this affecting for all ages is rare these days.” rockers (Radiohead) and relative newcomers — Consequence of Sound (Alabama Shakes) A Song For You offers Director Taika Waititi masterfully weaves lively humor an entertaining tribute to the longest- with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and running music show in American TV Julian Dennison. Never short on laughs, this touching story history.” — Variety reminds us about the journey that growing up is (at any age) and those who help us along the way. transcends the TV show and gives audiences a front-row seat and backstage pass to the greatest performances of the Official selection: Seattle International Film Festival 2016 longest running music show in television history. Official selection: Sundance Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Tribeca Film Festival 2016 Official selection: SXSW 2016

Director Taika Waititi Cast Sam Neil, Juilian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Rhys Darby, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne Script Taika Waititi Director Keith Maitland Producers Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Producers Keith Maitland, Sarah Wilson, Susan Thomson Leanne Saunders, Matt Nonnan I C T+ IC

28 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Special Event The Duel of Wine Wed 6 July / Radisson Blu Hotel / 19.00 2015 / Italy, Argentina / 95min

orld famous sommelier Charlie Arturaola fell from grace after starring in a previous film. The character he played in the film, a W“sommelier that has lost his sense of taste,” became inseparable from Charlie’s real-life persona, and he ended up losing his career. His wife, Pandora, finds him a way back into the wine tasting world – working for some

important European bodegas – but he must work behind the scenes as a “ghost WEDNESDAY 6JULY taster” for a young and ambitious sommelier, Antonio Poncelis. When they are called to participate in the 200-bottle Great Wine Duel, a kind of Euro 2016 for wine tasters, Charlie is frustrated to be another man’s ghost-taster and must go on a journey, both physically (through Old World wine country) and emotionally, as he fights to regain his lost fame and status.

Charlie Arturaola and producer Lino Pujia will be on hand to introduce new wines during this unique synaesthetic experience. “A robust comedy for discerning pallets, The Duel of Wine features sommeliers, winemakers, and Director Nicolas Carreras Cast Charlie Arturaola, Lino Pujia, chefs from Italy, Rioja Alavesa, the Basque Country, Pandora Anwyl, Luca Gardini Champagne, Bordeaux, Mendoza and more.” Script Federico Marcello Producer Lino Pujia I 18

World Cinema The Commune Kollektivet

Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 19.15 2016 / Denmark / 111min

rik and Anna are an academic couple with a dream. Along with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in an upmarket Edistrict of Copenhagen. With the family in the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in the house meetings, dinners and parties. It is friendship, love and togetherness under one roof until an earth-shattering love affair puts the community and the commune to its greatest test yet.

Winner: Silver Bear for Best Actress (Trine Dyrholm), Berlinale 2016

“Trine Dyrholm powers a tense Vinterberg film set in 1970s Copenhagen, where a couple’s experiment Director Thomas Vinterberg in group living reveals faultlines in their own Cast Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, relationship.” — The Guardian. Helene Reingaard Neumann Script Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg Producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann I C T

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New Irish Cinema Feature Documentary WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Dead Along The Way Weiner

Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 19.30 Wed 6 July / Cinemobile / 21.30 2016 / Ireland / 88min 2016 / USA / 100min

Wacker and Tony – a pair of down-on-their-luck Anthony Weiner was a young congressman on the cusp of videographers – are about to video a wedding, and they higher office when a sexting scandal forced a humiliating think their lives can’t get any worse. Wacker’s wife has resignation. Just two years later, he ran for mayor of chucked him out, he has been beaten up over money she New York City, betting that his ideas would trump his borrowed for fertility treatment, and a drink-fueled incident indiscretions. He was wrong. With unprecedented access the night before has put his friendship with Tony under huge to Weiner, his family, and his campaign team, Weiner is a strain. But their problems are only beginning: Big Jim – a thrilling look inside a political comeback-turned-meltdown. notorious loan shark who is also having a pretty bad time of What begins as an unexpected surge to the top of the polls it after learning about his 16 year old daughter’s pregnancy takes a sharp turn once Weiner is forced to admit to new – visits the church and dies after a scuffle with Tony. The sexting allegations.

“In this Irish crime comedy, hapless “Weiner is the best documentary about a wedding videographers Wacker and Tony political campaign ever made.” — Variety find themselves unexpectedly dealing with a dead body, overly-enthusiastic As the media descends and dissects his every move, Weiner desperately tries to forge ahead, but the increasing Gardaí, fertility treatment, and a vengeful pressure and crippling 24-hour news coverage halt his gangster… oh, and an imminent wedding.” political aspirations. Weiner walks the line between political farce and personal tragedy. With the city of New York as videographers decide to try and conceal their crime before a loud and bustling backdrop, this documentary charges any wedding guests arrive. What happens next is ungodly. through an increasingly baffling political campaign with unflinching clarity, humor, and pathos. Director Maurice O’Carroll will attend. Winner: Grand Jury Prize Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Seattle International Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016

Director Maurice O’Carroll Cast Niall Murphy, Ciaran Bermingham, Tom Lawlor, Ben Condron, Sinead O’Riordan Script Maurice O’Carroll Directors Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg Producers Elaine O’Carroll, Sinead O’Riordan Script Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, Eli Despres Maurice O’Carroll Producers Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg W FF C QA T+ I C T+

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New Irish Cinema Property of the State WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Wed 6 July / Town Hall Theatre / 20.00 ased on true events that shocked Ireland in the 1990s, Property of the 2016 / Ireland, UK / 107min State tells the story of a disturbed young man by the name of Brendan BO’Donnell as seen through the eyes of his sister Anne Marie. Piece by piece she threads together the events that ultimately lead to the harrowing murders of a young mother, her child and a local priest in the forest of East Clare, Ireland. Anne Marie lived through it all. As the loving sister of a loving brother, she became the sister of a murderer and the sister of a man described as the most evil man in Ireland. She had not committed a crime, yet many saw her guilty by association.

Director Kit Ryan and cast will attend.

“A hard-hitting drama threading together the events that lead to a series of harrowing murders committed by a man with a mental age of seven, and the subsequent trial that rocked 1990s Ireland.” Director Kit Ryan Cast Patrick Gibson, Aisling Loftus, David Rawle, Elaine Cassidy Script Susan Morrall Producers Team Network Media Limited, GSP Studios Limited, Goldfish Entertainment, Premiere Picture W C QA 18

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World Cinema New Irish Cinema WEDNESDAY 6JULY

Suntan The Randomer

Wed 6 July / Town Hall Studio / 21.30 Wed 6 July / Town Hall Theatre / 22.00 2016 / Greece, Germany / 104min 2016 / Ireland / 82mins

For middle-aged Kostis, life has passed him by. As the newly Free-spirited Meg thinks she has everything she wants, a appointed doctor of a tiny island, Kostis spends a dreary great job and a vibrant city life full of trendy bars, cafés winter alone. By the time summer arrives, though, the island and social nightlife. But her life is suddenly turned upside- has turned into a thriving, wild vacation spot with nude down when she finds herself needing the one thing that she beaches and crazy parties. least expected – a baby. With the clock running out before When Kostis meets the beautiful and flirty Anna, he falls she hits the dreaded 40, it’s a race against time to find an hard for her and goes out of his way to impress her. Before uncomplicated man for the perfect baby. long, Kostis is spending nearly all of his time getting drunk, With the help of her new lesbian neighbours and her

“The quicksilver seductiveness of youth “Written by Gerry Stembridge (Ordinary drives a doctor to distraction in this Decent Criminal, About Adam) The deliberately discomforting drama.” Randomer is a modern Irish comedy about — Variety sex, love and procreation.”

partying hard, and even making out with Anna. What starts ever pregnant sister Regina, Meg dives headlong into as a rediscovery of his lost-long youth, though, slowly turns Dublin’s widest selection of cosmopolitan men, determined into an obsession. to find the perfect “Randomer” to fulfill her quest. If only Meg can avoid the pitfalls of modern dating, Official selection: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016 she might suddenly discover that the perfect no-strings- Official selection: SXSW 2016 attached man isn’t so random. The Randomer is a modern Irish comedy about sex, love and procreation. The Randomer is the Filmbase Masters students 2016 feature film.

Directors Naji Bechara, Caoimhe Clancy, Iseault Imbert, and cast will attend.

Director Argyris Papadimitropoulos Directors Naji Bechara, Caoimhe Clancy, Iseult Imbert Cast Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Cast George Hanover, Daryl McCormack, John Lynn, Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali, Marcus Collen Nelli Conroy, Caoimhe O Maille Script Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Syllas Tzoumerkas Script Gerry Stembridge Producers Phaedra Vokali, Argyris Papadimitropoulos Producers Emma Karlsson, Aisling O’Halloran I C 18 W FF C QA T+

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World Cinema Feature Documentary

Awaiting Barista La adopción

Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 10.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 10.30 2015 / Spain, Lithuania / 96min 2015 / USA / 103min THURSDAY 7JULY

Daniela Féjerman demonstrates her mastery of narrative in Five top baristas find themselves pushing the limits of coffee a drama that she had to endure for herself: the extremely perfection to win the National Barista Championship in the tough process of adopting a child in a country riddled with U.S. – a surreal competition where even one mistake is far corruption. A Spanish couple travel to Eastern Europe with too many. Once a year, thousands of baristas square off in high hopes of adopting a child. However, things do not competitions around the U.S., but only one will become the work out as they had expected. The dream they came with National Champion. Barista takes viewers on a humorous, threatens to turn into a nightmare as their case is dealt with emotional and enlightening look into the unimaginable world by dishonest pencil pushers in a strange country. They wait to of coffee competitions and the passionate, lovable and quirky be assigned a healthy (or not so healthy) child. characters who devote their lives to them. If you think you know coffee, this film will make you think twice. “This poignant exploration of the emotionally “Barista introduces the world to the fraught business of trans-national adoption competitive espresso-maker circuit, profiling follows a middle-aged Spanish couple on five enterprising young baristas as they vie a journey to bring home an orphan from for a national title.” — Variety Lithuania, where the indifference and bureaucracy of the process puts a strain on To celebrate Galway’s growing coffee culture we will be pitting the finest baristas from Galway and Ireland against their relationship.” — Seattle IFF 2016 each other in an old-fashioned barista-style competition in Badger & Dodo café at 4.30pm. Admission free. Official selection: Berlinale 2016 Official selection: Seattle International Film Fest 2016

Director Daniela Féjerman Cast Nora Navas, Francesc Garrido, Larissa Kalpokaite, Director Rock Baijnauth Vytautas Kaniušonis, Šarūnas Puidokas Cast Charles Babinski, Eden-Marie Abramowicz, Script Daniela Féjerman, Alejo Flah Charlie Habegger, Truman Severson, Ryan Redden Producers Gerardo Herrero, Ramüñas Škikas Producers Christopher Kao, Jimmy Nguyen I C T+ I C T

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New Irish Shorts 1 Thu 7 July /Town Hall Theatre / 10.30

The first in our series of live action drama programmes features mixed-themed shorts which highlight the variety in Irish filmmaking today. The films range from traditional narratives to contemporary dance to the supernatural. T+

Foxglove Day Off Breathe THURSDAY 7JULY

Auto The Wake WAIT

Foxglove Day Off Breathe In the wilds of Connemara, an engineer Laura struggles to come to terms with A macho Traveller becomes and his daughter are targeted by an this life changing affliction. Her only increasingly concerned that his young ancient and angry force from within distraction is her day off, where once son is “soft”. the earth itself. each week she finds time to see friends Director James Doherty Director Brian Deane and socialise. Producer Peter Frankie Brennan Producer Crónán Creagh Director Stephen Hall Producer Ronan Cassidy WAIT Auto When an important pigeon race and In a sleepy Irish town, a hit and run The Wake a rare visit home by his son Martin accident may unravel more than a A woman. A house. Sheets stir... new coincide, Charlie waits anxiously for a young couple’s relationship. beginnings await. Using dance as a safe journey home. Director Paul D’Eath unique cinematic language, The Wake Director Audrey O’Reilly Producer Claire O’Malley is an Irish film that explores female Producer Lyndzi Doyle, Audrey O’Reilly dynamics inside the house. Director Oonagh Kearney Producer Zlata Filipovic

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World Cinema Feature Documentary

The Mine Those Who Jump Les Sauteurs

Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 12.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 12.30 2016 / Finland / 97min 2016 / Denmark / 82min THURSDAY 7JULY

Jussi, a young, ambitious civil servant, finds himself in In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: charge of the environmental permit for a huge nickel and Europe on African Land. Over a thousand hopeful African uranium mine in Lapland. The mine is pioneering a new migrants live on the mountain above, watching the fence method of collecting minerals, whilst creating jobs in one of separating Morocco and Spain. Abou from Mali is one of them the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that – the protagonist in front of the camera, as well as the person the new method has serious environmental downsides. A behind it. For over a year, he has ceaselessly attempted to new application for another permit is brought to him by the jump the fence.

“Director Aleksi Salmenperä creates a “...a riveting form of home movie where smart and gritty film leaving the viewer to home itself is entirely off limits...” question their own environmental morals.” — The Hollywood Reporter — Edinburgh IFF

same mine. An interesting job offer, and a chance of a new At the fence, they have to overcome the razor-wire, beginning, comes with this application. Jussi has to decide automatic pepper spray and brutal authorities. After every whether he will play along and, if so, with whom. failed attempt, they return to Mount Gurugú, scouring for food in the nearby villages, trying to uphold some sort of Official selection: Göteborg IFF 2016 order in the camp and building up their confidence again. Official selection: Edinburgh IFF 2016 Some give up and return home, others never return.

Cast member Jani Volanen will attend. Official selection: Berlinale 2016

Presented with the support of the Finnish Film Foundation.

Director Aleksi Salmenperä Cast Joonas Saartamo, Jani Volanen, Peter Franzén Director Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner, Abou Bakar Sidibé Script Pekko Pesonen Script Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner Producers Annika Sucksdorff, Aleksi Bardys Producers Heidi Elise Christensen, Signe Byrge Sorensen I C T I C T

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New Irish Shorts 2 Thu 7 July /Town Hall Theatre / 12.30

Life is a journey from childhood to old age, and this programme of six short films takes us through the struggles that come with each stage. This programme features work from debut filmmakers and more established directors. T

The Debt Adulting Wifey Redux THURSDAY 7JULY

The Boring Diary of Frances Noone A Long Shot Pebbles

The Debt Adulting Wifey Redux When lovestruck ten year old Daithi After a relationship abroad goes awry, A man becomes obsessed with falls for his classmate Jessica, he turns Jane returns to Connemara to find that driving off his teenage daughter’s new to his best friend Penny to help him what she wants may not be so far from boyfriend in this dark comedy based win her heart. home after all. on the story by Kevin Barry. Director Helen Flanagan Director Linda Bhreathnach, Director Robert McKeon Producer Simon Doyle Justin Davey Producers Michael Donnelly V, Producers Linda Bhreathnach, Robert McKeon, The Boring Diary Justin Davey of Frances Noone Pebbles It’s 1987 in Northern Ireland. Frances A Long Shot On her 50th wedding anniversary a Noone is ten years old and terminally A couple who are struggling financially woman returns to the hotel where bored. are tested when Larry bets on Ireland she spent her honeymoon. Will her Director Cara Holmes to win a football match against estranged Husband return to honour a Producer Edwina Forkin Germany – with Sarah’s rent money. promise? Director Andrew Jordan Director Jonathan Shaw Producer Bobby Byrne Producer Lisa Kelly

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New Irish Documentary World Cinema World Cinema

The Wall My Friend Eyes of a Thief From the Park Mi Amiga del Parque

Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 14.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 14.30 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Theatre / 16.00 2016 / Ireland, North Korea / 74min 2015 / Argentina, Uruguay / 84min 2014 / Palestine, Algeria, Iceland, France / 98min THURSDAY 7JULY The Wall is the story of a young female Liz is struggling to adjust to her new Eyes of a Thief begins at the height of poet in North Korea. The director life as a mother. With her husband the second Palestinian uprising in 2002. David Kinsella wanted to make a real away for work, she has left her job Tareq, an enigmatic man bearing fresh a documentary, but the government to stay at home and care for their wounds, is tended to by local nuns. He’s in North Korea brought in over 1000 baby. Feeling lost, Liz begins taking soon arrested by Israeli soldiers. 10 extras to make Kinsella produce what her baby to the neighborhood park, years later Tareq is released from prison they wanted: propaganda. where she strikes up a friendship with and he returns to his town to find his “In The Wall we learn to “An unexpected friendship is “Political film making at take our own decisions and the catalyst to explore class its most tellingly personal believe what we see and not conflict, female solidarity and accessible.” what others tell us to see.” and the responsibilities of — The Hollywood Reporter single motherhood in Ana Kinsella had to change his strategy. daughter Nur. His search leads him to Under pressure from the North Korean Katz’s engaging My Friend an angry girl on the verge of violence; censor, he filmed in such a way that From the Park.” a woman, Lila, who tries to ensure animation could be overlaid onto the — Screen Daily Tareq stays away from the girl she images when he returned to Norway – raised; and Adel, the town’s assumed and used to tell the real story. the spontaneous Rosa. It’s liberating, leader who imposes his own dubious Understanding that in North Korea but freedom soon turns to paranoia, laws. As secrets are uncovered, Tareq’s “all foreigners are spies and evil”, and Liz begins to suspect Rosa’s true relationship with Nur, Lila, Adel and the David Kinsella realised that he had intentions when she is sucked into locale sheds light on the stifling nature also been told this as a boy growing Rosa’s world of stolen cars, unstable of contemporary Palestinian society. up in Northern Ireland – and so he sisters, and shady pasts. made a comparison between his own Director Najwa Najjar will attend. childhood in Belfast, and his North Winner: Screenwriting Award Korean adventure movie. (World Cinema – Dramatic), Sundance Winner: Silver Pyramid for Best Actor Film Festival 2016 (Khaled Abol Naga), Cairo IFF Director David Kinsella will attend. Winner: Best Film, Kolkata IFF Director Ana Katz Winner: Best Director, Kolkata IFF Cast Julieta Zylberberg, Ana Katz, Maricel Álvarez, Mirella Pascual, Director David Kinsella Malena Figó, Daniel Hendler Director Najwa Najjar Cast Yuna Shin, Jin Han Pak, Corey Script Ana Katz Cast Khaled Abol Naga, Souad Massi Mckinley, Conor Smith, Thomas Purdy Producers Nicolas Avruj, Diego Lerman, Suhail Haddad, Malak Ermileh Script Klaas Bense Ana Katz, Agustina Chiarino, Fernando Script Najwa Najjar Producer David Kinsella Epstein, Ignacio Rey, Gastón Rothschild Producer Hani Kort I C QA T IC T I QA C T

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World Cinema Feature Documentary World Cinema

Summertime All Eyes L’Accabadora La Belle Saison and Ears

Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 16.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 16.30 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Theatre / 18.00 2016 / France / 105min 2005/ USA, China / 90min 2015 / Italy, Ireland / 96min THURSDAY 7JULY With La Belle Saison, veteran filmmaker When former Utah governor Jon Annetta is an Accabadora, a type Catherine Corsini explores the story of Huntsman was appointed United of “reverse midwife”, called upon by a love between two young women that States Ambassador to China, the families to help the terminally ill exit is both unabashedly sexy and utterly charming career politician arrived at this world as painlessly as possible. realistic and compelling. his new post with his entire family While the locals have much respect for Setting the film between the – including his adopted Chinese her role, handed down from mother to bucolic French countryside and the daughter, Gracie. Huntsman’s daughter, they keep her at a distance “Perhaps the world is finally “Vanessa Hope’s “Set in Second World War ready for a lesbian romance documentary feature debut Sardinia, this is a film about as direct and unapologetic evokes the personal and the the twin pillars of life and as Summertime.” international with its accent death and the path of love — Variety on diplomacy, activism and that walks between them.” individual experience.” — streets of Paris in the 1970s, Corsini Caamfest and so Annetta leads a solitary life. casts a steady eye on a twenty-year- With her dying breath, her sister old farm girl whose homosexuality diplomatic struggles and triumphs requests that the tradition is not becomes a source of anguish when her are explored in the broader context of passed on to her daughter. In order very traditional parents expect her to China’s relationship with the rest of the to do this Annetta must renounce her marry a local boy who — in their eyes world, and intersected with Gracie’s niece Tecla. The bond between them — seems perfect for her. personal experience living in China as a is too great, and so Anetta must leave Delphine takes a huge step in her Chinese-American her town and follow Tecla to Cagliari. life by picking up and moving to the There she meets Albert, a foreign big city. She finds an apartment and Official selection: doctor with whom she finds hope. replaces her overalls with a leather Tribeca Film Festival 2015 jacket. It’s not long before Delphine Director Enrico Pau, producer is drawn to the dynamic Carole, who Director Vanessa Hope will attend. Jane Doolan, and actor Barry Ward heads up a feminist group will attend. Director Vanessa Hope Director Catherine Corsini Cast Gracie Mei Huntsman, Director Enrico Pau Cast Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Jon Huntsman Jr., Chen Guangcheng, Cast Donatella Finochiarro, Barry Ward, Noémie Lvovsky, Kévin Azaïs, Laetitia Christian Bale, Jimmy Carter, Carloina Crescentini Dosch, Benjamin Bellecour, Sarah Suco Hillary Rodham Clinton, Zhou Enlai Script Antonia Iacarina, Enrico Pau, Script Catherine Corsini, Script Vanessa Hope Igor Tuveri Laurette Polmanss Producers Geralyn White Dreyfous, Producers Francesco Pamphili, Producer Elizabeth Perez Carlton Evans, Ted Hope, Vanessa Hope Jane Doolan I C T I C QA T E C QA T

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New Irish Documentary New Irish Documentary Galway Is Film

Rebel Rossa Outcasts by Little Cinema Choice Showcase

Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 18.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 18.30 Thu 7 July / Nun’s Island Theatre / 2016 / Ireland, USA / 90min 2016 / Ireland / 76min 19.00 THURSDAY 7JULY Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was one In war-torn 1977 Belfast three brothers The Little Cinema is a monthly of the most controversial figures in and a friend formed a band and led showcase of the best short films, music Irish history. A committed Republican, the Punk Explosion. They rejected the videos and documentaries being made he created the concept of bombing status quo and the sectarian violence – in Galway and beyond. Set up to act as campaigns against England in the and yet their entourage became known “an open mic” for filmmakers, all levels 1800s. Banished as an exile to as the Locusts – because “anything they of filmmaker and all genres of film the United States, he continued couldn’t eat, they destroyed”. are welcome. “A personal investigation “A nicely constructed primer “An eclectic, exciting and into the life and legacy of on the The Outcasts’ history energetic showcase of some the famous – and infamous to date and the cross- of the best work over the – Irish rebel Jeremiah community nature of the last year from Ireland’s O’Donovan Rossa by his original Belfast punk scene.” premiere ‘open-mic for American great-grandson.” — The Irish News filmmakers’ from around Galway and beyond.”

to relentlessly campaign for Irish As Punk reaches its 40th Collaborations are always independence. His funeral in 1915 lit the Anniversary, some members of The encouraged, and with filmmakers fuse for the rebellion of Easter 1916. Outcasts are now approaching 60. And attending the screenings, a network of One hundred years after his they’re back on the road, performing all writers, directors, producers and actors death, his great grandsons investigate over Europe – even on a boat in Berlin. has developed organically, allowing the Rossa’s legacy and their relationship Have these guys no lawns to mow? No grass roots filmmaking scene in Galway to their infamous relative. Filmed in golf clubs to join? Can they actually play and beyond to flourish. the centenary year of O’Donovan their instruments this time around? In 2013 Chris O’Dowd became the Rossa’s death, the grandsons find Who are The Outcasts now? Are they patron of the Little Cinema and his themselves not only observers of their still punks? And what is punk anyhow? support, along with that of Galway relative’s commemorations, but actual This film starts in tumult, and ends up City Council Arts Dept. has allowed it participants. somewhere else entirely. to keep growing and helping the next generation of Ireland’s filmmakers. Directors Paul and Kate McCarroll This special screening at the will attend. Galway Film Fleadh will feature some of the best submissions to be screened Director Williams Rossa Cole at the Little Cinema over the previous Script Williams Rossa Cole 12 months. Producers Rossa Williams Cole, Ciaran Directors Kate McCarroll, Paul McCarroll O’Connor, Martha Donovan Ahlquist Producer Paul McCarroll WC XT IC QA T

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42 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 New Irish Cinema In View Thu 7 July / Town Hall Theatre / 20.00 2016 / Ireland / 93min

n View follows Ruth (Caoilfhionn Dunne), an Irish cop, as she nears the end of a long process of grieving for the loss of her baby and husband, and ultimately Iherself. Ruth’s depression and alcoholism manifest in manic extremes of passivity and anger, indifference and violence. Two camps comprise Ruth’s closest – yet still distant – circle: those who blame and those who forgive. Yet Ruth cannot see beyond her worst critic: herself. Eventually her unyielding guilt forces Ruth to confront her past mistakes and choose a path toward redemption.

Official selection: Dallas International Film Festival 2016

Director Ciaran Creagh and cast will attend

“An experiential, character driven statement piece and it comes with the arsenal to match.” Director Ciaran Creagh Cast Caoilfhionn Dunne, Stuart — truthoncinema.com THURSDAY 7JULY Graham, Ciaran McMenamin, Gerard McSorley, Maria McDermottroe Script Ciaran Creagh Producers David Byrne, Simon Doyle, Ciaran Creagh E FF QA C T+

Special Event Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All The Music Has Disappeared Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 20.15 2015 / Switzerland, Germany / 86min

magine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments? This film Iaccompanies Bill Drummond as he finds new voices for his choir. So we can

Photo: innocently invent it again.

Tracey Moberly Bill Drummond will attend.

“The first time I saw this film I was horrified to find I was in it. The second time I saw it I thought it was brilliant but… The third time I saw it I realised I needed to remake it as a drama, without me in it. The reason why I will be there at the screening in Galway is to get your input on what the Director Stefan Schwietert remake should be like. I also need to explain to you who Script Stefan Schwietert Tenzing Scott Brown is and why.” — Bill Drummond Producers Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer, Helge Albers I T

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outh tells the story of Tom, a young man struggling with the recent death of his father. After finding a note from his estranged mother he decides to Shit the road and try to find her. Throughout this journey Tom also tries to overcome his crippling stage fright as a musician. Along his journey he meets Jess, a free-spirited young woman that captivates his mind and heart.

Director Gerard Walsh will attend.

“A subtle, charming film about love and loss from up-and- coming director Gerard Walsh (A Day Like Today).” THURSDAY 7JULY

Director Gerard Walsh Cast Darragh O’Toole, Emily Lamey, Joe Rooney, Andie Mcaffrey Byrne Script Gerard Walsh Producer Matthew Toman W C QA T

Special Event Atlantic Thu 7 July / The Shed on the Docks, Galway Harbour / 20.30 2015 / Ireland, Canada, Norway / 80min

rom the maker of The Pipe, Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s new film Atlantic takes on the powerful interests carving up Ireland’s ocean resources. Emmy FAward-winning actor Brendan Gleeson narrates the film, which was shot across Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland (Canada) by Scannáin Inbhear (Inver Films). Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. As the major oil companies drive deeper into their fragile seas, and the world’s largest fishing companies push fish stocks to the brink, coastal people and the species they rely on may be reaching a point of no return.

Winner: Best Irish Documentary, Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016

Guests will be welcomed with a reception featuring local craft beer, and local seafood served by Stephane Griesbach of Gannet Fishmongers. Following the screening, there will be a Q & A with O’Domhnaill, Griesbach and Michael O’Meara, author of Sea Gastronomy.

Director Risteard Ó Domhnaill “...epic in scope, damning in its conclusions.” Script Angela Antle — The Irish Times Producers Risteard Ó Domhnaill, Marie-Therese Garvey QA 18

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New Irish Cinema World Cinema World Cinema

Tiger Raid The The Plants Automatic Las Plantas Hate

Thu 7 July / Town Hall Theatre / 22.00 Thu 7 July / Cinemobile / 22.15 Thu 7 July / Town Hall Studio / 22.30 2016 / UK, Ireland / 92min 2016 / USA / 97min 2015 / Chile / 93min THURSDAY 7JULY Joe and Paddy are members of a When Davis Green’s alluring young Florencia (17) must take care of her private security crew working in the cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep older brother, who is in a vegetative Middle East. They have been assigned one night, he discovers that a side of state, on her own for the first time. to kidnap the daughter of a powerful his family has been kept secret for his Trying to survive with limited means man as part of a major robbery – a entire life. Against his father’s wishes, and no assistance, she’ll become Tiger Raid. We meet them as they he travels to rural upstate New York to obsessed with a comic called Las travel through the inhospitable desert meet his other cousins. Plantas, which tells the story of the “Cleverly structured and “The family you never “...a potent, obliquely told brimming with tension knew you had turns out coming-of-age movie that and pent-up violence.” — to be the family you may fuses pop culture, coma, Edinburgh IFF wish you never met in this teen sexuality and plant arresting, skillfully directed life into a dark, troubling on their way to execute the raid. seriocomedy.” — Variety whole...” — The Hollywood Joe, the older of the two, carries Reporter a brutal and unrepentant view of the world, defined by fear and adoration As he and Alexis attempt to reunite invasion of plant souls during a full of their invisible but omnipresent their families, they try to uncover the moon. She will also start to explore her boss. Paddy is younger and recklessly shocking secret that tore their families sexuality, meeting strangers via the ambitious, hungry to progress through apart, whilst wrestling with a taboo Internet. the ranks of the crew. Neither man attraction to each other. trusts the other as they tell half truths Winner: The Grand Prix Generation and stories of previous victories in a Official selection: Seattle IFF 2015 14Plus International Jury, Berlinale battle to determine who controls this Official selection: Busan IFF 2015 2016 increasingly volatile situation. Director Justin Lerner will attend. Director Simon Dixon will attend.

Director Simon Dixon Director Justin Lerner Director Roberto Doveris Cast Brian Gleeson, Damien Molony, Cast Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Cast Violeta Castillo, Ingrid Isensee, Sofia Boutella, & Rory Fleck Byrne Deborah Ann Woll, Richard Schiff, Mauricio Vaca, Ernesto Meléndez Script Mick Donnellan, Simon Dixon, Ricky Jay Script Roberto Doveris Gareth Coulam Evans Script Justin Lerner, Katharine O’Brien Producers Roberto Doveris, Producer Gareth Coulam Evans Producers Alix Madigan, Lacey Leavitt Rocío Romero I FF C QA 18 I QA C 18 I FF C T+

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New Irish Shorts 3 World Cinema Human Rights Docs Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10.00

Our Human Rights strand of short documentaries features films from conflict zones, border crossings and refugee camps. A collection of stories from those on the frontline as they fight for freedom, dignity and a normal life. T+

Armi Alive! Armi Elää!

Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 10.15 2015 / Finland / 74min Backlash: The War on Human Rights The Border

Armi Alive! portrays a theatre company preparing a play about Armi Ratia, the founder of the iconic Finnish design company Marimekko. The play focuses on Armi’s life between the years 1949 and 1968, during which she founds Marimekko, leads it to international “An intricately constructed,

Borderland Destination: Gaza meta-fictional character FRIDAY 8JULY study of iconic designer Armi Ratia from Oscar Backlash: The War on The Border Human Rights The Border offers a glimpse of the winner Jörn Donner.” Violent attacks against human rights stories of some of the women, men defenders are not new. But a new and children making long and perilous success, and is finally forced to ponder threat is taking hold globally with the journeys to seek refuge in Europe. her relationship to the company: does potential to affect all our lives. Director Caoimhe Butterly Marimekko need Armi, or does Armi Director Nuala Cunningham Producer Caoimhe Butterly need Marimekko? During the rehearsal Producers Nuala Cunningham, process, the actress Maria struggles Ciaran O’Connor Destination: Gaza with Armi’s contradictions and tries to Brought up in Northern Ireland in the find the truth and the person behind Borderland 1980s, Garry McGovern entered Gaza the legend. Borderland explores the current after the 2014 war, to see how families refugee crisis that is unfolding across coped in a current conflict. Official selection: Göteborg IFF 2015 Europe’s borders. Director Garry McGovern Directors Conor Maguire, Paul Webster Producer Garry McGovern Presented with the support of The Producers Conor Maguire, Finnish Film Foundation. Paul Webster

Director Jörn Donner Cast Laura Birn, Outi Mäenpää, Ona Kamu, Tiina Lymi, Anna Paavilainen, Robert Enckell, Jakob Öhrman Script Karoliina Lindgren Producers Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff I C T

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New Irish Shorts 4 Fri 8 July /Town Hall Theatre / 12.00

A collection of shorts which explore relationships in their many forms: parents and children, school-time camaraderies, star-crossed lovers. From the formation of lifelong bonds to heart-crushing departures, we witness how a single situation can entirely change a perspective. T

The Letter The Saviour of Dublin City Delicate Things

Groundless We Have Each Other Lily FRIDAY 8JULY

The Letter The Saviour of Dublin City Delicate Things Determined to save the relationship Nathan must embark on a journey to Blinded by grief, a man vows to they’ve built together, he says Dublin city’s Spire with his imaginary avenge his wife’s killer. Only his young, everything he has to say – the only sidekick to get the superpower that sensitive son can save his dad from the way he knows how. will stop his parents’ fighting. enveloping darkness of revenge. Director Kevin O’Farrell Director David Naughton Director Patrick Maxwell Producer Kevin O’Farrell Producer Shane Crowley Producer Joan Burney Keatings MBE

Groundless We Have Each Other Lily Mary is a single mother striving to instil A young couple try to survive a crisis, Lily, a girl with a secret on the cusp moral values in her children. But can a but the real danger may be far more of becoming a young woman, is faced mother’s love triumph over the lure of personal than either of them realise. with the greatest challenge of her the city streets? Director Naomi Sheridan young life. Director Eimear Callaghan Producers Roisin Kearney, Director Graham Cantwell Producer Anthony McDonagh Fran Sheridan Producers Sharon Cronin, Indah Pietersz, Emma Carlsson, Ciaran Byrne

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home of entertainment 5 – 10 July 2016 28th Galway Film Fleadh On the Box A selection of Irish made-for-television documentaries. Admission to each film is €5.00. Isonomia Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 10.00 / 2015 / Spain, Ireland / 41min There are many myths and unanswered questions about equality. Isonomia aims to explore the equality and domestic violence issue in a small town using seven simple, yet key questions. Various experts discuss and try to answer these questions in order to demystify some of the beliefs widely held by the population there. Director David Souto will attend.

Fís na Fuiseoige (The Lark’s View) Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 11.30 / 2016 / Ireland / 52min Isonomia In Ireland, “person” and “place” are inseparable. Sense of place has shaped the Irish literary imagination and Irish identity for some time. Fís na Fuiseoige explores the deep connection between people and place, as expressed in Irish language poetry and local lore. Filmed over a year, and using state-of-the-art aerial cinematography, the film is a stunning visual exploration of the diversity of local places in Ireland, as seen from a bird’s-eye view. This exploration is illuminated by the perspective of the country’s leading Irish language poets who have written about the importance of place. Director Aodh Ó Coileáin will attend.

The War Against Women in Eastern Congo Fís na Fuiseoige (The Lark’s View) Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 13.00 / 2015 / Ireland / 60min The ongoing war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has taken over 6 million lives. Since 2007, phenomenally high levels of crimes of sexual violence have been reported. Award-winning filmmaker Dearbhla Glynn set out to document this crisis. She presents an uncompromising and disturbing examination of the effects of the sexual violence perpetrated with impunity against women and girls in this war-torn country. The film explores the experience of the victims as well as the FRIDAY 8JULY perspective of the perpetrators of these appalling crimes – foot soldiers, warlords and high-ranking commandants. An arresting and brutal account of how war ravages the land and its people and leaves few victors – least of all women. Director Dearbhla Glynn will attend.

The War Against Women in Eastern Congo Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion Poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 14.30 / 2016 / Ireland / 52min Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion explores the life, work and sensual poetic imagination of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, a revolutionary Irish poet. Mhac an tSaoi explores themes of love, sacrifice, sexual awakening, betrayal, the joy of motherhood, old age, and the death of loved ones – set against the backdrop of a tumultous century in Irish history, in which she and her family were centrally involved. Featuring performance artist Maureen Fleming, Louis de Paor, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Olwen Fouéré. Director Paula Kehoe will attend. Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion The Judas Iscariot Lunch Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 16.00 / 2016 / Ireland / 55min Refreshing in its approach, The Judas Iscariot Lunch presents thirteen Irish ex-­ priests who speak candidly about the crossroads they came to with their beliefs, after being ordained and positioned as missionaries in East Asia, the Pacific and South America in the 1960s and 1970s. Through their “camera confessionals” we hear about their questions and the guilt they felt whilst trying to bridge the gap between the theology they were taught at the seminary and what they put into practice in the real world. Their journeys convey a broader understanding of what faith is and how it must move and change with the times. The Judas Iscariot Lunch Director Teresa O Grady Peyton will attend.

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Feature Documentary Feature Documentary

Diving into the Unknown The Land of Takaisin Pintaan the Enlightened Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 12.15 Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 14.00 2016 / Finland, Norway / 90min 2016 / Belguim, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Afghanistan / 87min

Cave diving is a dangerous hobby. For a group of Finnish cave The Land of the Enlightened is a seamless blend of fiction and divers, their worst nightmare becomes real during an accident documentary, in which we experience a stunning cinematic in which two divers drown deep inside a cave in Norway. In journey into the beauty of war-tormented Afghanistan. this feature length documentary viewers are drawn into a Shot over seven years on evocative 16mm film, first- secret operation where the surviving divers try to retrieve the time director Pieter-Jan De Pue paints a whimsical yet bodies of their friends – after the official retrieval operation haunting look at the condition of Afghanistan left for the next has been called off. Can they overcome the burden of their generation. As American soldiers prepare to leave, we follow own fears during this life-threatening mission? De Pue deep into this hidden land where young boys form FRIDAY 8JULY “This one will have your heart pounding “Hypnotic, playful and chillingly austere, this from the tense underwater moments, but hybrid documentary blends romance and will also show you what true friendship can raw realism.” — Screen Daily be.” — Hot Docs 2016

Diving into the Unknown is more than just a rare insight wild gangs to control trade routes, sell explosives from mines into a secret operation – it is also an in-depth story of the left over from war, and climb rusting tanks as playgrounds — groups’ unconditional friendship. making the new rules of war based on the harsh landscape left to them. Official selection: Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival 2016 Winner: Best Cinematography Award, Sundance FF 2016 Official selection: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016 Producer Juho Harjula will attend. Producer Morgan Bushe will attend. Presented with the support of The Finnish Film Foundation. Presented in association with Guth Gafa.

Director Juan Reina Cast Patrik Grönqvist, Kai Känkänen, Director Pieter-Jan De Pue Sami Paakkarinen, Vesa Rantanen Script Pieter-Jan De Pue, David Dusa Script Juan Reina Producers Bart Van Langendonck, Producer Juho Harjula Morgan Bushe I C T+ I C T

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Special Event World Cinema

Re|Fresh Absolution Henkesi Edestä

Fri 8 July / Huston School of Film & Digital Media / 14.00 Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 14.15 2015 / Finland, Ireland / 92min

Fresh Film Festival in association with Huston School of Film Kiia and Lauri are speeding down a dark country road, and Digital Media, NUI Galway presents Re|Fresh, a selection anxious to reach the hospital because Kiia has gone into of highlights from 20 years of the festival. premature labour. Their car hits something. Lauri goes to Fresh Film Festival is dedicated to encouraging and take a look, and tells his wife he saw nothing. They rush to promoting the work of young filmmakers under the age of the hospital, and Kiia gives birth to a healthy baby boy. While 18. Every year hundreds of young filmmakers submit their in the hospital, Kiia meets Hanna, a woman whose husband films in the hope of becoming Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of is in a coma, the victim of a hit-and-run driver. Kiia befriends the Year and every year a selection of these films go on to Hanna and tries to help her desperately without revealing FRIDAY 8JULY “An oppurtunity to meet the future of the “Chewing on universal themes of guilt, Irish film industry” forgiveness and revenge, Absolution is a superior suspense thriller that is not afraid win awards at festivals all over the world. Over its 20 years to tackle difficult ethical questions.” Fresh has identified, encouraged and celebrated thousands of emerging junior and senior filmmakers in Ireland and — The Hollywood Reporter worldwide. Fresh alumni continue to forge careers in Irish film and moving image media. her role in the accident. When the truth finally dawns, will it The Re|Fresh 20th anniversary showcase is an be too late to forgive? opportunity to encounter the Fresh Film Festival and celebrate the diversity and talent that it has nurtured over Official selection: Warsaw International Film Festival 2015 two decades – and an oppurtunity to meet the future of the Irish film industry. There will be screenings of a selection of Director Petri Kotwica will attend. winning films, introduced by the filmmakers – who range from student to emergent to established filmmakers. There Presented with the support of The Finnish Film Foundation. will also be a special announcement of new developments and partnerships as the festival moves into its third decade. The event will be free and there will be light refreshments. We welcome anyone with an interest in Irish film and young filmmakers to come along.

Admission is free. Please see www.freshfilmfestival.net for more details. Director Petri Kotwica Cast Laura Birn, Mari Rantasila, Eero Aho, Teijo Eloranta Script Petri Kotwica, Johanna Hartikainen Producers Minna Virtanen, Leslie McKimm I C T+

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New Irish Cinema Bobby Sands: 66 Days FRIDAY 8JULY

Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 16.00 n the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike 2016 / UK, USA, Denmark, Ireland, brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Sweden / 105min IRepublican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest – he wished to be classified as a political prisoner – became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands’ death after 66 days marked a turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict – which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it. Bobby Sands: 66 Days is a major feature length documentary exploring Sands’ remarkable life and death, 35 years on from his ultimate sacrifice. The spine of the film is comprised of Sands’ own words, drawn from his hunger strike diary – a unique insight into the man and his beliefs as he embarked on his final journey.)

Official selection: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016 Official selection: Hot Docs Film Festival 2016

Director Brendan J. Byrne will attend. There will be a panel discussion post- screening with filmmaker Brendan Byrne, Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times) and more guests to be announced. For more details see www.galwayfilmfeadh.com.

“This finely crafted documentary may well long stand as the most balanced among such treatments, as it Director Brendan J Byrne respectfully examines Sands’ folk-heroic legacy rather Producer Trevor Birney than simply amplifying it.” — Variety I C QA T

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Creative England celebrates Market Trader programme and short film talent at Galway

Market Trader brings 10 of the UK’s brightest emerging producers to the Marketplace. Now in it’s third year, Market Trader focuses on giving producers a better understanding of international markets and co- productions, from the perfect pitch to closing a deal. This year’s selected producers will present their slates at the Galway Film Fair, before embarking on an intense programme of workshops, mentoring and market engagement with industry experts as part of Market Trader.

The Talent team brings new and emerging shorts to Galway for the first time. To celebrate our association with the festival we are delighted to be screening films specially curated by the Film Fleadh. The shorts are selected from across the various strands of our BFI NET.WORK support for filmmakers, and showcase the breadth and depth of the next generation of talent coming through.

WHEN 16:15 on Friday 8 July WHERE the Cinemobile

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*Background still: A SIX AND TWO THREES, screening at Galway 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Creative England Shorts

Fri 8July / Cinemobile / 16:15

This year we are expanding our borders with a programme of shorts from England. This non-competitive selection of live action drama shorts was produced under Creative England schemes, including Emerging Talent, iShorts 2 and Funny Girls. This programme features work from debut filmmakers and more established directors. 18

Here Boy Litterbugs Holes in their Souls

Polar Bear A Six and Two Threes FRIDAY 8JULY

Here Boy Litterbugs Holes in their Souls In Claudia, Simon has met the perfect Helped by her self-made flying Fact is stranger than fiction in this true girl. But she treats him like a dog and mechanical creatures, a young inventor urban myth. there’s only so much he can take. and an enigmatic pint-sized superhero Director Andy Smith Director Molly Manners defeat the town bullies and find an Producers Dave Hart, Ged Hunter Producer Selena Cunningham unexpected friendship. Director Peter Stanley-Ward Polar Bear Producers Nicole Carmen-Davis, Polar Bear pursues an act of violence Chris Musselwhite as it ricochets through time. Director Sean Buckley A Six and Two Threes Producers Diarmid Scrimshaw, Two kids from different sides of the Dan Winch tracks meet when one of them goes in search of his father. Director Andy Berriman Producer Maria Caruana Galizia

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New Irish Cinema A Date for Mad Mary FRIDAY 8JULY

Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 18.00 ad’ Mary McArdle returns to Drogheda after a short spell in prison for 2016 / Ireland / 82min something she’d rather forget. Back home, everything and everyone ‘Mhas changed. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is maid of honour. When Charlene refuses Mary a ‘plus one’ on the grounds that she probably couldn’t find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong. But her attempts at dating are a disaster and she winds up feeling more alone – until she meets Jess and everything changes. A Date for Mad Mary is a tough and tender story about friendship, first love, and letting go of the glory days.

Director Darren Thornton and cast will attend.

“A pitch perfect snapshot of modern Ireland, and featuring a breakout perfomance from Seána Kerslake, this remarkably assured debut mixes comedy, drama and authenticity to make a satisfying whole.”

Director Darren Thornton Cast Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack, Siobhán Shanahan Script Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton Producers Ed Guiney, Juliette Bonass I FF C QA T+

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World Cinema New Irish Cinema

Brakes Twice Shy

Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 18.15 Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 18.30 2016 / UK / 84min 2016 / Ireland / 77min

“If you knew where it would end, would you ever begin?” Twice Shy is a coming of age story about a young, unmarried Brakes is a raw, dark comedy about endings and beginnings. couple who embark on a road trip from Ireland to London, A failed relationship is rarely predicted but always reviewed, as the result of an unplanned pregnancy. While on the road and the film adopts this reverse narrative. they reflect on their relationship and find themselves facing Split into two halves, the film follows the tumultuous life changing decisions that will change the rest of their lives. stories of nine couples. It plunges straight into the brutal and Will these choices bring them closer together or ultimately absurd endings of their relationships, and travels back in time drive them apart?

FRIDAY 8JULY “Hilarious, traumatic and not a little bit “Intimate, sensitive and timely, Twice bonkers, Mercedes Grower’s delightfully Shy is a cleverly constructed film that cast debut explores a series of ordinary follows a young couple on a road-­trip relationships from beginning to end from Ireland to the UK as a result of (though, cleverly, not in that order).” an unplanned pregnancy.”

to the moment when the spark of love between them first Although it’s a story about young love and finding your emerged. Using London as their match maker, each of their place, Twice Shy explores some very topical issues in a stories is unique, yet familiar to us all. sensitive and non-judgmental manner. The movie features a supporting cast that includes Ardal Official selection: Edinburgh International Film Festival O’Hanlon and Pat Shortt, and a soundtrack featuring Gavin James, Ash, Molly Sterling, and The Corrs. Director Mercedes Grower will attend. Director Tom Ryan and cast members Shane Murray Corcoran and Iseult Casey will attend.

Director Mercedes Grower Director Tom Ryan Cast Julian Barratt, Julia davis, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Cast Shane Murray Corcoran, Iseult Casey, Roland Gift, Paul McGann, Steve Oram Ardal O’Hanlon, Pat Shortt Script Mercedes Grower Script Tom Ryan Producer Mercedes Grower Producer Fionn Greger I FF C QA T+ W C QA T+

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New Irish Cinema The Young Offenders FRIDAY 8JULY

Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 20.00 nspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The 2016 / Ireland / 85min Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, Itwo inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff moustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth €7m, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find the missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives.... But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.

Director Peter Foott and cast will attend.

“...a free-wheeling Irish comedy about dreams, friendship, and getting older (but not necessarily any wiser).”

Director Peter Foott Cast Chris Walley, Alex Murphy, Hilary Rose, PJ Gallagher Script Peter Foott Producers Peter Foott, Julie Ryan, Cormac Fox W FF C QA T

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New Irish Documentary New Irish Documentary

Lost in France Born and Reared

Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 20.15 Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 20.30 2016 / Ireland, UK / 100min 2016 / Northern Ireland / 66min

A new documentary by Irish director Niall McCann, Lost In Born and Reared is a moving documentary that explores France explores the rise of Scotland’s independent music contemporary Northern Ireland, through the lives of scene in the ‘90s, led by cult label Chemikal Underground. four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. It is a Featuring The Delgados, Bis, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Franz story about reimagined identity of place and the fragility Ferdinand, and other seminal acts, this is an intimate film of masculinity. exploring friendship, creativity and music. Contextualised by the country’s past, the film is firmly On the journey, we re-visit a defining, chaotic trip early in rooted in the Northern Ireland of today, as the population the musicians’ careers – re-staging a concert in Brittany that struggles to come to terms with the horrors and the

FRIDAY 8JULY connects the characters in life (and on stage) for the first sacrifices of its past, and the men turn to face a future time in many years. defined by their hopes, rather than regret. “From Mogwai to Franz Ferdinand, “Set in the aftermath of the troubles in and many more inbetween, Chemikal Northern Ireland, this is a powerful Underground defines the independent story of a place and its people, and the record scene in Scotland. Here we see effects that conflict has had on their what makes the label and its acts so contemporary identity.” adored by fans worldwide as they get lost in France... twice.” Filmed over a year with the men in and around their homes, the filmmakers focused on the stories that took place long after the cameras had left the news story that was Official selection: Edinburgh Film Festival 2016 Northern Ireland. Thirty years of violence came to an end in a 1998 peace deal but the lives of those affected indirectly or Director Niall McCann and Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) and otherwise by the so-called ‘Troubles’ continued. Stewart Henderson (Chemikal Underground) will attend. Director Henrietta Norton will attend.

Director Niall McCann Cast Alex Kapranos, Stuart Braithwaite, Stewart Henderson, Director Henrietta Norton Emma Pollock, Paul Savage, RM Hubbert Cast Bobby Mathieson, Danny Humphries, Script Niall McCann Billy McManus, Brian Foulis Producers Nicky Gogan, Paul Welsh Producers Henrietta Norton, Dan Dennison IC QA T QA C T

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New Irish Cinema A Dark Song FRIDAY 8JULY

Fri 8 July / Town Hall Theatre / 22.00 Dark Song follows Sophia, a young woman who insists on renting an old 2016 / Ireland, UK / 100min house in the remote countryside so that she can hire an occultist named A Solomon. She needs him to perform an ancient invocation ritual, the Abramelin, to summon up Sophia’s Guardian Angel so her wish can be granted. She wishes to talk to her murdered child, a desire that consumes her. The ritual is an extremely arduous one. They are to seal themselves in the house for months as it plays out. As they get deeper into the rite they run the risk of turning on each other, of going mad. But when Solomon finds out that Sophia has not been truthful about her wish, a greater danger threatens them. In the dark, they find that they are no longer alone in the house. They are now in the world of real angels, and real demons. The house is surrounded with a line of salt, it is the only protection they have. They must not cross it, no matter how bad it gets.

Director Liam Gavin will attend.

“A refreshing Irish horror that pits a reluctant occultist and a grieving mother against terrifyingly real angels and demons in a ritualistic nightmare from which Director Liam Gavin there is no escape.” Cast Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Guberman, Susan Loughnane Script Liam Gavin Producers David Colins, Cormac Fox, Tim Dennison W FF C QA T+

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World Cinema World Cinema

collective: Barash unconscious Fri 8 July / Cinemobile / 22.15 Fri 8 July / Town Hall Studio / 22.30 2016 / USA / 78min 2015 / Israel / 85min

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous A girl falling in love, a family falling apart. 17-year-old Naama broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly Barash enjoys alcohol, drugs and hanging out with like- incarcerated recount and re-interpret their first days of minded friends. Her activities are an escape from a home freedom. A suburban mom’s life is upturned by the beast where her parents always fight, and a rebellious, army- growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs enrolled sister, who, one day, disappears. As a new girl shows drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of up at school, Barash falls deep in love for the first time, and independent film’s most adventurous filmmakers join the intensity of the experience at once confuses her and gives together to adapt eachother’s dreams for the screen? her life new meaning. FRIDAY 8JULY “An omnibus feature whose intriguing “An Israeli school girl struggles painfully premise bears fruit in a diverting, diverse towards liberation from her family, and array of idiosyncratic miniatures.” from everything they stand for before finding salvation in the arms of a girlfriend.” Official selection: SXSW 2016 — The Hollywood Reporter Director Daniel Patrick Carbone will attend. Official selection: Göteborg International Film Festival 2016 Official selection: BFI Flare London LGTB Film Festival 2016

Directors Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein Cast Frank Mosley, Will Blomker, Lily Baldwin, Tonya Pinkins, Daniel Ryan, Ryan Cassata, Sanda Weigl, MJ Frank, Michael Dempsey, Jamal Batts Script Jamal Batts, Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Mariama Diallo, Lauren Wolkstein, Dan Schoenbrun Director Michal Vinik Producers Dan Schoenbrun, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Cast Sivan Noam Shimon, Hadas Jeid Chanelle Elaine, Kara Elverson, Andrew Houchens, Sakuri, Dvir, Bendak, Irit Pashtan Elizabeth Rao, Zachary Shedd, Valerie Steinberg, Script Michal Vinik Laurie Thomas Producer Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait E QA C T I FF C T+

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New Irish Shorts 5 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10.00

Programme 5 provides a platform for six diverse shorts. From the comical to the unfortunate, we explore why some conversations are necessary, while other things are better left unsaid. This programme features work from debut filmmakers and more established directors. T+

Fire Madam Black Time and Again

STARZ Change in the Weather Nymphet

Fire Madam Black Time and Again An encounter in an unfamiliar When a glamour photographer Lucen Jones went looking for the environment challenges the identity of runs over a child’s pet, he’s forced impossible and found the unimaginable. a volatile young man. to fabricate a story about its Director Aidan Largey Director Christopher Andrews disappearance. Producers Margaret McGoldrick, Producers Carla MacKinnon, Director Ivan Barge Leo McGuigan Barbara Healy Producers Ivan Barge, Matthew Harris, Jozsef Fityus, Tim Judson Nymphet SATURDAY 9JULY STARZ A twelve-year-old girl plays a A documentary film crew follows Change in the Weather dangerous game with unforeseeable hopeless actors agent Dan Cambell as Michael, a young man living in rural consequences. he tries to save his sinking business Ireland, struggles to adjust to a sudden Director Laura Hermanides from another industrial tribunal. change in his furtive lifestyle. Producer Declan Lynch Directors Kevin Treacy, Martin McCann Director Muiris Crowley Producers Kevin Treacy, Martin McCann, Producer Muiris Crowley Youcef Boubetnikh, Barry Caddell

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Feature Documentary World Cinema

Author: Hotel Dallas The JT LeRoy Story Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 10.15 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 10.30 2016 / USA / 110min 2016 / Romania, USA / 75min

New York Magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves In the twilight of communist Romania, Dallas is the only through the literary world when it unmasked “It boy” American show allowed on TV. It offers a vision of wealth wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his and glamour that captures the imagination of millions. sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries Among them are Ilie and his daughter Livia. He is a small- internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He time criminal and aspiring capitalist; she is in love with was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker the show’s handsome leading man, Patrick Duffy. After and phone sex operator, Laura Albert. communism falls, Ilie builds the Hotel Dallas, a life-size copy

“Laura Albert, the real author behind “A combination of documentary, unstuck- fabricated sensation JT LeRoy, tells her side in-time fantasy, and children’s theater [...] of the story in Jeff Feuerzeig’s endlessly The effect is mesmerizing.” riveting documentary.” — The Guardian — Baltimore Sun

Author: The JT LeRoy Story takes us down the infinitely of the Dallas mansion. Livia immigrates to America, becomes fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert – like a Cyrano an artist, and directs a film starring Patrick Duffy, as a soap de Bergerac on steroids – breathed not only words, but life, opera character who dies in Texas and wakes up in Romania, into her avatar for a decade. Albert’s epic and entertaining in a hotel that looks just like home. SATUDAY 9JULY account plunges us into a glittery world of rock shows, fashion events, and the Cannes red carpet where LeRoy Official selection: Berlinale 2016 becomes a mysterious sensation. As she recounts this astonishing odyssey, she also reveals the intricate web spun by irrepressible creative forces within her. Her extended and layered JT LeRoy performance still infuriates many; but for her, channeling her brilliant fiction through another identity was the only possible path to self-expression.

Official selection: Sundance Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Seattle Film Festival 2016 Official selection: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016 Directors Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang Director Jeff Feuerzeig Cast Livia Ungar, Razvan Doroftei, Sonia Chihaia, Script Jeff Feuerzeig Maria Croitoru, Serena Sgardea, Bogdan Velicu Producers Jim Czarnecki, Danny Gabai, Molly Thompson, Script Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang Brett Ratner, Henry S. Rosenthal Producers Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang I C T+ I FF C T

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New Irish Shorts 6 Sat 9 July /Town Hall Theatre / 12.00

This selection of five varied shorts shows how we can find ourselves trapped in unescapable situations – be it in our own home, a traffic jam or even someone else’s body. Here, we follow the struggles to break out. This programme features work from debut filmmakers and more established directors. T+

Fingerprints Gridlock Eadrainn Féin / Between Us

The Captors Animal

Fingerprints Gridlock Eadrainn Féin / In a school on a tough, working class When a child goes missing during a Between Us estate in Dublin, a troubled boy’s life is traffic jam, her distraught father forms Eadrainn Féin tells the story of the threatened by the growing concerns of a search party to find her. But soon changing relationship between a his teacher. everyone is a suspect. farmer and his son when his son starts Director Jimmy Smallhorne Directors Ian Hunt Duffy questioning his gender identity. Producer Jeff O’Toole Producer Simon Doyle Director Daithí Ó Cinnéide Producer Mairead Kiernan The Captors Animal SATURDAY 9JULY A trio of tiger kidnappers are faced Having escaped from his captors, with an unexpected dilemma when a modern day slave leads his rescuer their weathly target calls their bluff. back to the camp where he was Director Chris Baugh imprisoned. Producer Brendan Mullin Director Niall Owens Producers Niall Owens, Paraic English, Ian de Brí, Ger Murphy, Timmy Creed

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reland’s recession pushes young people out. Surplus to requirement in the world beyond the Roller Derby track, the fast paced and aggressive Derby Iworld becomes a haven for determined, pissed-off women in a crippled country. Young Irish women go on a high-octane Roller Derby odyssey in search of a means for self-expression, a fight to be fought, and, above all, a team that needs them. But how will responsibility and power affect the new leaders? With total access over 4 years, starting with the first-ever Irish team as they prepare for the World Cup in 2011, Revolutions follows this exciting sports arc, capturing the story as it unfolds, and observing fascinating rivalries and real character development.

Director Laura McGann will attend.

“An unflinching and poignant insight into the trials and tribulations, both personal and sporting, of the women on the forefront of Ireland’s burgeoning Roller Derby scene. It Director Laura McGann also features one of the more intense Dublin Cork rivalries Cast Crow, Violent Bob, Zola Blood, Kitty Cadaver, Jessica Rammit, you’re likely to see for a while.” Jemerald Producers Laura McGann, Ross Whitaker W C QA SATUDAY 9JULY

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72 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com 28th Galway Film Fleadh 5 – 10 July 2016 Feature Documentary Yarn Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 12.30 2016 / Iceland, Poland / 77min

he traditional crafts of crochet and knitting have become one of the hottest movements in modern art. We follow a few International artists and knitters Tas they bring yarn to the streets and into our lives in new ways. Starting in Iceland, this quirky and thought-provoking film takes us on a colourful and global journey as we discover how yarn connects us all.

Official selection: SXSW 2016

“A vibrant documentary that follows top international artists and knitters as they bring yarn to the streets and into people’s lives in sensational new ways.” — Indiewire

Directors Una Lorenzen, Thordur Jonsson, Heather Millard Cast Barbara Kingsolver, Cirkus Cirkör, Olek Tinna Thorudottir, Thorvaldar Toshiko, Horiuchi MacAdam Script Krishan Arora Producers Heather Millard, Thordur Jonsson I C

See it – Be it! Putting Women in the Picture Sat 9 July / Galway Rowing Club / 15.00

e know that far fewer women than men write and direct films and TV drama. It’s true in Ireland and across the world, and it has consequences not only for the filmmakers themselves, but for all of

W SATURDAY 9JULY us. When women are out of the picture it can impact on the kinds of stories and characters that end up on our screens. In December 2015 the Irish Film Board took steps that promise to shake up the landscape of Irish film. Their new 6 Point Plan includes 50/50 gender funding parity over three years. It’s bold. It’s innovative. And it’s the talk of Europe. But what exactly does it mean for you, the writers and directors? Join a panel of women filmmakers, representatives from the IFB and the equality committee of the Writers Guild and the Screen Directors Guild to shine a spotlight on women in the Irish film industry. We’ll be celebrating and learning from the experiences of some of our women filmmakers. And afterwards, we’ll thrash out the challenges and possibilities of this new policy together. Get informed, motivated and inspired! What’s the story? Join us on Saturday at 3pm and find out!

Speakers to be confirmed. Organised by the Equality Action Committee (EAC) of the Writers Guild of Ireland & the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (facebook.com/equalityactioncommittee/)

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World Cinema Feature Documentary

The Girl King Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 14.15 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 14.30 2015 / Finland, Canada, Germany, Sweden / 106min 2015 / Germany, Czech Republic / 72min

The Girl King is a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant The film follows Josef Koudelka on his journey photographing Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the Israel and Palestine. In each enigmatic and visually spectacular conservative forces that are against her ideas for the location, a scene unfolds, and we are gradually introduced to modernization of Sweden, and who have no tolerance for Koudelka’s working method, his perception of the world he is her awakening sexuality. She must choose between her documenting and the people he encounters. country, her father, her religion, and “who she wants to be.” A fascinating dialogue emerges between the moving She chooses to take control of her destiny. images of Baram’s film and Koudelka’s still photographs, as Baram places the photographer in his own breathtaking

“Pope Alexander VIII once described her “Director Gilad Baram follows celebrated as ‘a queen without a realm, a Christian photographer Josef Koudelka on his journey without faith, and a woman without shame’. through the Holy Land from one enigmatic Kristina of Sweden was undoubtedly one of and visually spectacular location to another.” the most remarkable women of her era.” compositions. Austere images of landscapes divided by Winner: Best Film, Valladolid International Film Festival 2015 concrete walls and barbed wire reveal the tragic absurdity of Official selection: Ottawa LGBT Film Festival 2015 the infamous conflict. SATUDAY 9JULY

Presented with the support of The Finnish Film Foundation. Official selection: DOCAVIV 2016

Director Gilad Baram will attend.

Presented with the support of Goethe-Institut Irland.

Director Mika Kaurismäki Cast Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Hippolyte Girardot, Patrick Bauchau Script Michel Marc Bouchard Director Gilad Baram Producers Mika Kaurismäki, Anna Stratton, Cast Josef Koudelka Rainer Kölmel, Arnie Gelbart, Wasiliki Bleser, Script Gilad Baram, Elisa Purfürst Marton Persson Producer Gilad Baram IC T+ IC QA T

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New Irish Cinema History’s Future

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 14.00 istory’s Future is about one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil 2016 / Netherlands, Ireland, – and through his own mind. Losing his memory after a mugging, a Germany / 95min Hman known only as ‘MP’ (Missing Person) leaves his home, and sets out on a journey – in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic, encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West – into SATURDAY 9JULY what commentators have called an age of ‘rolling catastrophe’.

Official selection: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016

Director Fiona Tan and cast will attend.

“...an explosion of ideas and imagery.” — Screen Daily

Director Fiona Tan Cast Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant, Anne Consigny, Manjinder Virk, Brian Gleeson, Christos Passalis Script Fiona Tan, Jonathan Romney Producers Floor Onrust, Cormac Fox, Benny Drechsel

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Feature Documentary New Irish Cinema

Cheer Up Staid

Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 16.15 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 16.30 2016 / Finland, Canada / 86mins 2016 / Ireland / 89min

Cheer Up takes us into the teenage lives of a team of Four small-town people, tied together by new and old cheerleaders from the Arctic Circle in Finland, who always relationships, come together to tangle, fight, sing, talk, smoke, seem to place last. For Patricia, Aino and Miia, finding out who drink, argue, laugh, leave and return — and stumble towards they are, where they belong and what family means is much the reality that their lives are finally changing, whether they more important than any trophy. Cheer Up is a universal story like it or not. about teenagers. The film embraces the inner conflicts these young Official selection: Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016 women face at such an important turning point in their lives

“An examination of three compelling “A homegrown film that laments the young women bound by their varying increased isolation of rural Ireland whilst degrees of commitment to cheerleading simultaneously showing that there is life in the Arctic Circle.” and love still to be found in the unlikeliest of places.” – when relating to family, finding your own way, and fitting in with the crowd is not so easy. Win or lose, cheerleading Director Paul O’Brien will attend. for them is a second family (like dance, football and other SATUDAY 9JULY hobbies) and an opportunity to learn about life, it’s pitfalls and success, sorrows and joy.

Official selection: HOT DOCS 2016

Director Christy Garland will attend.

Presented with the support of The Finnish Film Foundation.

Director Paul O’Brien Director Christy Garland Cast Adrienne Myler, Phil Lyons, Paul Creane, Stephen Murphy Script Christy Garland Script Paul O’Brien Producer Liisa Juntunen Producers Paul O’Brien, Ted Moran, Mark Mahoney IC QA T FF QA T

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New Irish Documentary It’s Not Yet Dark

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 16.00 t’s Not Yet Dark is a feature length documentary telling the story of Simon 2016 / Ireland / 77min Fitzmaurice, a talented Irish filmmaker who is living with motor neurone Idisease. He was diagnosed at the age of 34, after his short film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His wife was expecting their third child and they were left shocked and reeling. Simon refused to give up and started to work on the script for a feature film – My Name is Emily. Now, five years later, the father of five children, he is completely physically incapacitated. SATURDAY 9JULY Narrated by Colin Farrell, and using extracts from Simon’s best selling memoir, we follow Simon as he embarks on the direction of his first feature film through the use of the last physical attribute he has control over – his eyes.

Director Frankie Fenton and producer Kathyrn Kennedy will attend.

“The groundbreaking and life-affirming story of director Simon Fitzmaurice (My Name is Emily) as he sets out to direct his first feature film, undaunted by the limits imposed by motor neurone disease.”

Director Frankie Fenton Producers Lesley McKimm, Kathryn Kennedy W C QA T

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Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann presents After ’16 Sat 9 July /Radisson Blu Hotel / 18.00

After ’16 is a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916. This collection of nine short films is a mixture of live action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Rising all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond. T+

A Father’s Letter Granite and Chalk The Cherishing

My Life for Ireland Goodbye Darling The Party

A Terrible Hullabaloo Granite and Chalk The Cherishing At 14 years of age, Vinny Byrne As rebels planned the 1916 Easter When The Rising starts the local found himself fighting for Ireland Rising, they were watched by two sweet shops are the first to be looted. in the 1916 Rising. An 80-year-old spies code-named Granite and Chalk. Noel and Tom race off and leave their Vinny now reminisces on his time This documentary tells their story. mothers and sisters at home. with the Volunteers. Director Patrick Hodgins Director Dave Tynan Director Ben O’Connor Producer Naomi O’Leary Producer Dave Leahy Producer Bob Gallagher SATUDAY 9JULY Goodbye Darling Mr. Yeats & the A Father’s Letter Goodbye Darling is one day in the Beastly Coins On the eve of Michael Mallin’s enduring love story of Irish Volunteer In 1926 the Free State government execution on May 7th 1916, his 2-year Michael Joseph O’Rahilly and his wife invited poet W.B.Yeats to chair the -old son Joseph was brought to see Nancy. A concerned Nancy seeks design committe for a new coinage for him in Kilmainham Gaol. That night comfort through playing the piano, the new state. his father wrote a letter that would unaware that her husband is leaving Directors Ann Marie Hourihane, change Joseph’s life forever. the beleaguered G.P.O. to lead the Laura McNicholas Director Joe Dolan charge that will ultimately claim his life. Producers Ann Marie Hourihane, Producer Niamh Heery Director Maria-Elena Doyle Laura McNicholas Producers Deirdre Levins, My Life for Ireland Fiona Kinsella The Party Dublin, 1916: Owen, a young Irish Belfast, 1972: Laurence welcomes his patriot, wants to join Padraig Pearse’s Baring Arms cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a rebels in their fight for freedom. There are many ways to commemorate party of drinking, dancing and love. Director Kieron J. Walsh the Rising. Only one involves bloodshed. Director Andrea Harkin Producers Damien O’Donnell, Director Colm Quinn Producers Farah Abushwesha, Emmaline Dowling Producer David Clarke Emmet Fleming

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New Irish Cinema Mom & Me

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 18.00 klahoma was recently voted the manliest state in the USA. Radio talk 2015 / Ireland, USA / 76min show host Joe Cristiano wants to investigate if the manliest men, in Othe manliest state in the Union, are willing to call in and discuss their mothers on air. Director Ken Wardrop (His and Hers) weaves an exquisitely sympathetic portrait of what mothers mean to their sons in this charming and touching film, showing a vulnerable side of American masculinity that viewers rarely see. These men come from all walks of life, ranging from a war veteran and a SATURDAY 9JULY prison inmate to a cowboy preacher and a district attorney. Their mothers are just as complicated: spunky, resilient, demanding, generous, and iconoclastic. As these mothers and sons ride horses, shoot guns, and discuss their deepest feelings, Wardrop’s compassionate observation reveals the universality that underlies this most particular relationship.

Winner: George Morrison Feature Documentary Award, IFTA 2016

Director Ken Wardrop will attend.

“A devastating study of motherly love in US’s ‘manliest state’.” — The Guardian

Director Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Freedman I C QA

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World Cinema Feature Documentary World Cinema

The Weather A Poem Is A Moon Dogs Inside Naked Person Das Wetter in Geschlossenen Räumen Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 18.15 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 18.30 Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 20.15 2015 / Germany / 100min 1974/2016 / USA / 90min 2016 / Ireland, UK / 92min

A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. After seeing Les Blank’s seminal film, Michael lives with his step brother (and Development aid worker Dorothea The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, musical genius) Thor in Shetland, a small hosts fundraising galas, schmoozing Leon Russell and Denny Cordell wanted island far north of Scotland. Thrust and boozing with potential donors. An to work with him. Les directed, filmed, together by their parents’ marriage affair with a young drifter, Alec, starts and edited A Poem Is A Naked Person they barely talk. But when Thor ruins as sweet distraction but brings her during 1972-74, while Blank was living at Michael’s chances of going to University dangerously close to losing control. the Russell/Shelter Records recording with his girlfriend Suzy, they embark on “With scathing insight, The “Les Blank’s long-lost “A wonderfully sustained Weather Inside questions Leon Russell documentary is feature debut from Philip the role of the media and a beguiling snapshot of John (Downton Abbey and public relations in conflict a lost era.” — Variety Outlander), Moon Dogs zones and exposes how is an anarchic, heart-felt refugee aid sometimes studio compound on Grand Lake o’ the coming-of-age story.” Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. benefits only those who This feature-length film, available need it the least.” for the first time, includes appearances a chaotic road trip that will push their — KINO! 2016 by Willie Nelson, George Jones, and tenuous relationship to the brink. some amazing characters in Oklahoma, En route they encounter Caitlin, a wild

SATUDAY 9JULY where much of it was shot. Irish free spirit who dreams of being a Official selection: Berlinale 2016 singer. The boys fall in love with her and Official selection: SXSW 2015 we follow their adventures on the road Director Isabelle Stever will attend. Official selection: Göteborg FF 2016 to Glasgow.

Presented with the support of Official selection: Edinburgh Goethe-Institut Irland. International Film Festival 2016

Director Philip John will attend.

Director Les Blank Director Philip John Director Isabelle Stever Cast Leon Russell, George Jones, David Cast Jack Parry Jones, Tara Lee, Cast Maria Furtwängler, Briggs, Eric Andersen, Malissa Bates Christy O’Donnell Mehmet Sözer, Anne von Keller Script Les Blank Script Raymond Friel, Derek Boyle Script Isabelle Stever Producers Denny Cordell, Producers Kathy Speirs, Jacqueline Producer Imgmar Trost Leon Russell Kerrin, Dominic Wright, Suzanne Reid I C QA T+ IC T I FF C T

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New Irish Cinema The Siege of Jadotville

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 20.00 gripping true story of incredible bravery against impossible odds, 2016 / Ireland, South Africa / 108min The Siege of Jadotville thrillingly depicts the 1961 siege of a 150-strong A Irish UN battalion under Commander Patrick Quinlan (Jamie Dornan) by 3,000 Conoglese troops led by French and Belgian mercenaries working for mining companies. Guillaume Canet plays a French commander who sought to defeat Quinlan and his men. Directed by Richie Smyth, a well-known commercial and music video director (U2, Bon Jovi, The Verve) and written by Kevin Brodbin (Constantine), The Siege SATURDAY 9JULY of Jadotville also stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Jason O’Mara with Mikael Persbrandt and Mark Strong.

Members of cast and crew will attend.

Director Richie Smyth “Based on the true story of the 1961 Siege of Jadotville Cast Jamie Dornan, Guillaume Canet, this debut feature is a stunning statement of intent from Emmanuelle Seigner, Jason O’Mara, director Richie Smyth and a riveting retelling of one of the Mikael Persbrandt, Mark Strong Script Kevin Brodbin greatest stories of survival and heroism in 20th century Producers Alan Moloney, Richie Smyth, military history.” Kevin Brodbin Print source Netflix I FF C QAT T

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World Cinema World Cinema Feature Documentary

Aloys The Kiki Alchemist Cookbook

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 20.30 Sat 9 July / Cinemobile / 22.15 Sat 9 July / Town Hall Studio / 22.30 2015 / Switzerland, France / 91min 2016 / USA / 82min 2016 / Sweden, USA / 94min

Aloys Adorn is a middle-aged private Hardly a conventional horror movie, Through a strikingly intimate and detective. He experiences life from a this unclassifiable miniature involving visually daring lens, Kiki offers a riveting safe distance – through a video camera a man in a trailer in the woods trying and complex insight into a safe space he keeps recording 24 hours a day. to contact the Dark Lord is funny created and governed by LGBTQ youth After a night of heavy drinking, and distinctive. It’s certain to expand of color, who are demanding happiness Aloys wakes up to find that his camera Michigan auteur Joel Potrykus’ and political power. “...this movie represents “Like Jim Jarmusch and “As a spin-off of New York’s filmmaking with its thinking Henry David Thoureau gay ballroom scene, the Kiki cap on, and its use of conspiring to remake Evil community gets its own techniques is almost clinical Dead, Indie wunderkind Paris Is Burning via this in its brilliance.” Joel Potrykus’ latest is a activism-oriented group — Twitch Film delightfully strange beast.” portrait.” — Variety

and observation tapes have been audience beyond his more reality- An exciting coming of age story stolen. A mysterious woman calls to tethered black comedy Buzzard. about agency, resilience and the blackmail him. She offers to return Suffering from delusions of transformative artform that is voguing. the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure fortune, a young hermit hides out in Japanese invention called “telephone the forest hoping to crack an ancient Winner: Teddy Award, Berlinale 2016

SATUDAY 9JULY walking” with her, using his imagination mystery, but pays a price for his mania. Official selection: Sundance Film as their only connection. While The Alchemist Cookbook Festival 2016 As he is drawn deeper, falling in certainly won’t be for everyone, it will love with the voice on the other end of surely delight and surprise those who the phone, the woman opens up a new can grok its idiosyncratic content. universe for him. Official Selection, SXSW 2016 Winner: FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama), Berlinale 2016 Winner: Audience Award, Las Palmas Film Festival 2016

Director Tobias Nölle Director Joel Potrykus Cast Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck Cast Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji Director Sara Jordenö Script Tobias Nölle Script Joel Potrykus Script Sara Jordenö, Producers Christof Neracher, Christian Producers Bryan Reisberg, Andrew Twiggy Pucci Garçon Davi, Thomas Thümena, Jean des Forêts Corkin, Ashley Young, Joel Potrykus Producers Annika Rogell, Lori Cheatle I FF C T I C T+ I C T+

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New Irish Cinema Cardboard Gangsters

Sat 9 July / Town Hall Theatre / 22.00 ohn Connors plays Jay Connolly, a part-time DJ and low level drug dealer in 2016 / Ireland / 90min Darndale, an area victimized by gangs, drugs and social problems. When his J welfare is cut off he decides it’s time to enter the big leagues with his gang, in order to help settle his family’s debts. His actions attract the attention of Sean Murphy, the son of the local drug king pin Derra Murphy, who rules Darndale with an iron fist and has no problems eliminating any potential rivals. Jay knows he’s playing a dangerous game but plans to make just enough money to settle his family’s debts, get out of Darndale, and move to Spain with SATURDAY 9JULY his pregnant girlfriend. Events spiral out of control when Jay becomes involved with Derra’s wife, and his gang are thrust in to harm’s way. Jay is left with a momentous choice to be made: to exact revenge, or turn the other cheek.

Director Mark O’Connor and cast will attend.

“An uncompromising, authentic examination of the cyclical nature of gangland crime in contemporary Ireland, Cardboard Gangsters is at once an intoxicating blend of high-octane violence and crime and a sobering Director Mark O’Connor condemnation of the circumstances that trap people in the Cast John Connors, Fionn Walton, lifestyle with no hope of escape.” Kierston Wareing, Jimmy Smallhorne, Paul Alwright, Ryan Lincoln Script John Connors, Mark O’Connor Producer Richard Bolger W C QA 18

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New Irish Shorts 7 Short Documentaries Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 10.00

From the artist’s den, to the wrestling ring, to traditional crafts, to contemporary dance, to modern day internet sensations, our documentary strand highlights the diversity of human life on this island. This programme showcases work from debut filmmakers to more established directors. X

Séan Hillen, Merging Views Oíche Nollaig na mBan Gone Viral

Gasper From Ash Mama Hen

Séan Hillen, Modest Gone Viral Merging Views Following their son Kevin’s tragic Eddie and Senan are mental health This portrait observes artist Séan death, Colin and Eithne Bell work to nurses who share a unique pastime by Hillen as he creates a beautiful new alleviate the financial hardships of entertaining millions of people online photomontage. He shares thoughts families seeking to repatriate their with their 6 second comedic videos. about his work and recent personal deceased to Ireland. Director Charlo Johnson discovery. Director Lauren McGuigan Producers Charlo Johnson, Director Paddy Cahill Producer Lauren McGuigan Paul Webster Producer Tal Green Oíche Nollaig na mBan Mama Hen Gasper A visual response to the life-force in Mama Hen is a charming documentary Gasper dwells in the Irish countryside. Seán Ó’Ríordáin’s poem, Oíche Nollag about mothers and daughters – told He forages for berries and trout. na mBan. through the story of one woman and Bathing in a vintage famine pot, he Director Oonagh Kearney her chickens. seems content with his idyllic isolation. Producer Oonagh Kearney Director Ryan Ralph Director Bryony Dunne Producer Ryan Ralph Producer Bryony Dunne From Ash A look at the craft behind Ireland’s Matchmaker most iconic sporting symbol, the hurley SUNDAY 10JULY Simon Rochford gives an insight into stick, from the forest to the workshop his role as a promoter at Irish Whip and the All-Ireland Final. Wrestling, as well as the difficulties Director Eamonn Dunne that come with it. Producer Eamonn Dunne, Mary Deely Director Eoin King Producer Dara McConnell

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World Cinema World Cinema World Cinema

These Rara The Midwife Daughters Kätilö of Mine

Sun 10 July / Cinemobile / 10.15 Sun 10 July / Town Hall Studio / 10.30 Sun 10 July / Cinemobile / 12.00 2015 / Poland / 88min 2016 / Chile, Argentina / 92min 2015 / Finland, Lithuania / 110min

Marta is a successful actress unable Since their parents split up, Sara and Finland, 1944. The country is shaken to put her life in order. Unlike her her younger sister live with their by the Lapland War, a conflict between domineering sister, Kasia is sensitive mother, whose new partner is a Germany and Finland. Helena, a small and effusive. They’re not keen on each woman. Everyday life for the four of community’s midwife meets the Nazi other but their mother’s unexpected them is very similar to that of other officer Johannes. She is attracted to illness forces them to co-operate. families. The situation is actually totally the mysterious stranger and follows

“Through strong and “Wonderfully light of touch, “Packed with incident and humorous characters, and full of well-observed human spectacle, The Midwife is a at times hilariously vulgar detail and even-handedly deluxe melodrama shot with dialogue, These Daughters compassionate, this richly great visual swagger.” of Mine succeeds in making human film is full of the — The Hollywood Reporter life’s depressing realities quieter values.” very watchable – and — The Hollywood Reporter him to the prisoner of war camp where he serves to start working as a nurse. almost bearable.” They develop a wild and passionate fine with Sara. But not everyone sees it relationship. Yet their burning love Laughter is liberating in this that way – her father in particular has neither removes the traumatic war heart-warming and profound story his doubts. images that haunt the officer nor the about family relations. The film was As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, gruesome secrets hiding behind the a massive box office hit in its home she feels rather overwhelmed: her first walls of the camp. country, in spite of the rather sensitive crush, her body is starting to change theme it tackles. and to top it all off, conflicts over Official selection: Busan IFF 2015 loyalty with her parents... Everything Official selection: Rome IFF 2015 feels wrong. Official selection: Helsinki IFF 2015

Winner: Grand Prix of the Generation Presented with the support of The KPlus International Jury, Berlinale 2016 Finnish Film Foundation. SUNDAY 10JULY Director Antti J. Jokinen Director Pepa San Martín Cast Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Director Kinga Dębska Cast Mariana Loyola, Agustina Muñoz, Tommi Korpela, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Cast Agata Kulesza, Gabriela Muskała, Julia Lubbert, Emilia Ossandon, Daniel Leea Klemola, Seppo Pääkkönen, Marian Dziędziel Muñoz, Sigrid Alegría, Coca Guazzini Elina Knihtilä, Johannes Brotherus Script Kinga Dębska Script Alicia Scherson, Pepa San Martín Script Antti J. Jokinen, Katja Kettu Producer Zbigniew Domagalska Producer Macarena López Producers Markus Selin, Jukka Helle I FF C T I FF C T+ I C T+

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New Irish Shorts 8 Animation / IFB Framework Premieres Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 12.00

Programme 8 celebrates the vibrant animation industry in Ireland today, and includes the world premiere screenings of short animations produced under Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board’s Frameworks scheme. This scheme is co-funded by BSÉ/IFB, RTÉ and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. 18

Second To None CONN Being Coo

The Bird & The Whale Bán All New Twitter

The Lost Letter N*gg*s Drought Second To None CONN Being Coo A black comedy about the world’s CONN tells the story of a high king’s An insecure grey pigeon attempts to second oldest man. turbulent reign in ancient Ireland. join the cool dove gang. Director Vincent Gallagher Director Fionn Boland Director Kimi Kurbanova Producer Damian Farrell Producer Fionn Boland Producer IADT The Bird & The Whale Bán All New Twitter A baby whale, separated from his A naïve white wolf goes on a quest to Twitter re-imagined for the typical

SUNDAY 10JULY family encounters a caged bird. find food in prehistoric Ireland. American audience of the 1950s. Director Carol Freeman Director Catherine O’Brien Director Hannah Cleary Producer Jonathan Clarke Producer IADT Producer BCFE The Lost Letter N*gg**s Drought The tale of a young boy as he prepares Officers Mc’Kluck and Mc’Lovinit, are at A young woman is in need of a drink on his neighbourhood for Christmas. war against the chicken nugget drug trade. a hot summer’s day. Director Kealan O’Rourke Director Kishan Nayar Directors Elle Power, Ruth Redmond Producer Brian Willis Producer BCFE Producer Gary Blatchford

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Joing Dots Are we them yet Proceeds of Crime

Joining Dots Are we them yet Greyhound Luna traces constellations which come Birth, brotherhood, heart break and Greyhound is an animated short alive in the night sky. She tries to show bumpin’ uglies in the backseat. film about a young racing dog lost her dad, who struggles to understand Director Keith Kavanagh in the city. her imaginary world. Producer Steve Woods Director Kayleigh Scullion Director Fiona Ryan Producer Fionn Boland Producer IADT Define Intervention The story of a man who comes face Proceeds of Crime The Last Leaf to face with God. A dark alphabetical journey through The story of a little leaf who dreams BIG! Director Sean Cunningham Ireland’s 2016 gangland. Director Olya Golubeva Producer BCFE Director David Quin Producer IADT Producer Jennie Kelly

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InnSæi – the Crash and Deconstructing Sea within Burn Dani García Deconstruyendo a Dani García

Sun 10 July / Town Hall Studio / 12.30 Sun 10 July / Cinemobile / 14.15 Sun 10 July / Town Hall Studio / 14.30 2016 / Iceland, UK / 75min 2016 / Ireland, UK / 81min 2015 / Spain / 72min

InnSæi – the Sea within offers radical For a fleeting moment in the early 80s Dani García, one of Spain’s top chefs, insights on how to re-think how we Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest faces a dilemma in his career: it’s approach the world today. driver – the motor racing equivalent January 2014 and he finds has no Two cultural entrepreneurs go on a of George Best and Muhammad Ali restaurant anymore. He is a chef global journey that will help even the all rolled into one. Byrne was a cocky, without a kitchen. His Michelin stars most skeptical to uncover the hidden aggressive driver from humble roots and his prestige are at stake. world of InnSæi. and the F1 glitterati simply didn’t like Deconstructing Dani García is a “InnSæi takes us on a “The rise and fall of “Deconstructing Dani global journey to uncover Drogheda’s Tommy Byrne, García is a flavorful and the art of connecting who, for a fleeting moment inspirational look at within in today’s world of in the early 80s, was the creativity and dedication distraction and stress.” world’s greatest driver.” in the face of adversary. — Seattle IFF 2016

The world is changing faster than the mix. Driving was a route out from feature documentary in which we see ever before and new ways of thinking a future of toil and drudgery he saw the reinvention process of a chef with are required. Statistics show that stretching out before him. two Michelin stars. After more than depression will likely be the highest In a little over four years Tommy a year shooting his everyday life, and leading cause of disease in the western Byrne went from driving a Mini Cooper observing his personal and business world by 2020. We can no longer sit in stockcar racing, to the big-time in difficulties, we witness the creation back and just expect change to happen. Formula One. His rise was meteoric of a restaurant and a menu of haute Change happens inside us. And it starts and his fall spectacular. cuisine in a record time. with InnSæi. Official selection: Official selection: Directors Kristin Olafsdottir, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016 Seattle International Film Festival 2016 Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir Cast Marina Abramovic, Marti Director Seán Ó Cualáin will attend. Spiegelman, Iain McGilchrist, SUNDAY 10JULY Dr. Enric Sala, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Högni Egilsson, Bill George, Tan Le, Director Seán Ó Cualáin Jonathan Harris, Daniel Shapiro Cast Tommy Byrne, Eddie Jordan, Directors Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, Script Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir Martin Brundle, David Kennedy, Iñigo Ruiz Producers Kristin Olafsdottir, Mark Hughes Cast Dani García Al Morrow, Sandra Tabares-Duque, Script David Burke, Seán Ó Cualáin Producers Dani García, Heather Millard Producer David Burke Juan José López, Jesús Javier Ruiz IC T IC QA T I C T+

90 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com SUNDAY 1012 JULY , . 91 In , orn in . He is 5 – 10 July 2016 , which was a , which garnered made Foot My Jim Left Sheridan a Hollywood darling, he remained Dublin he in 1949, began his career directing and writing plays for the stage. six-time Academy Award nominee and winner of the Golden Jim Bear, Sheridan is an undisputed heavyweight of Irish and world cinema. B , and has teamed up with rapper 50-cent for or Get Die Rich Trying o begin all over again is a classic American dream. But it is remarkably hard to do, as Irish immigrants Johnny and Sarah discover when they hit New City York with their two spunky young daughters in the mid-80s. In In 1982 he left Ireland, initially for Canada and subsequently for New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. Upon returning toIreland in the late 80s he announced himself, and Irish cinema, onto the world stage with the extraordinary Foot My Left five AcademyAward nominations, two Baftas and widespread international critical Though acclaim. another success, and in 1993, he released Name In the Father of the fictionalized re-telling of the case of the Guildford the Four, group wrongly accused of an IRA bombing. The film won the Golden Bear at the 44th Berlinale and was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Since then he has directed The Boxer resolute in his commitment to making films in Ireland. He followed up with The Field America In America In 2002 / Ireland, UK / 105min Sun 10 Hall July Theatre / Town / 15.00 An Afternoon with Jim Sheridan pursuit of a dream, the family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to make the most of their new life. The Sullivan family emigrates from Ireland to New as fatherYork Johnny chases his dream of being an Living actor. in a small Hell’s Kitchen apartment, the family settles into American life despite their deplorable living conditions. Wife Sarah works at an ice parlor while Johnny looks for work as an both actor, haunted by memories of their dead son, Frankie. Daughter Christie documents the family’s American journey with a video camera. currently completing an adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s novel, The Secret Scripture will be a short between intermission There interview the and screening. the A T My Left Foot Left My Sheridan, Arthur Lappin Sheridan Considine, Samantha Considine, Jim Sheridan, Sheridan, Naomi Jim Jim Paddy films.” — producer Noel Noel producer — films.” films about ourselves. It ourselves. about films Pearson, on it brought an enormous enormous an brought it making ‘oirish fillums’. And And fillums’. ‘oirish making companies came and made made and came companies of Hollywood that we were were we that Hollywood of amount of work as other other as work of amount destroyed all the perceptions perceptions the all destroyed booking 091 569777 28th Galway Film Fleadh Director Cast Morton, Sarah Emma Bolger, Bolger, Hounsou Djimon Script Kirsten Sheridan Producers Public InterviewPublic After that we could make make could we that After “It changed the whole thing. thing. whole the changed “It 5 – 10 July 2016 28th Galway Film Fleadh

New Irish Documentary Special Event

Further Beyond One Minute Film Festival Sun 10 July / Cinemobile / 16.15 Sun 10 July / Town Hall Studio / 16.30 2016 / Ireland, UK / 89min 60min

In their debut documentary, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor Galway City of Film in partnership with Galway Film Centre take as their point of departure the compelling 18th-century and the Galway Film Fleadh are delighted to announce the figure Ambrose O’Higgins. They attempt to retrace his return of The One Minute Film Festival. 30 one-minute films remarkable journey from Ireland to Chile. Key locations in have been selected from both experienced and first-time O’Higgins’ life – a lake in Sligo, a field in Meath, the port of filmmakers with all genres covered including comedy, drama, Cadiz, the sea, and the edge of a snow-covered mountain documentary, art-house and animation. Awards will be in the Andes – are visited and reflected upon in the hope presented to the top three selected films. These super short that something might be revealed, as if these very locations films pack a punch proving that a really great story can be might contain clues. told in just one minute!

“A discursive meditation on the Sligo “A film festival within a film festival, man who became captain general of the One Minute Film Festival showcases Chile in the 18th century” the best in super-short filmmaking, — The Irish Times where every moment counts.”

However, as they speculate on the idea of place and Presented in co-operation with the Galway Film Centre. what O’Higgins embodies, the filmmakers continually get sidetracked by a competing story of immigration and displacement. Gradually, and not without humour, these intertwining narratives uncover ideas about the transformative power of travelling, as looked at through the peculiar prism of the Irish experience.

Official selection: Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016

Director Christine Molloy will attend. SUNDAY 10JULY

Directors Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor Cast Denise Gough, Alan Howley, Jose Miguel Jimenez, Aidan Gillen Script Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor Producers Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor QA T

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World Cinema New Irish Documentary

24 Weeks We Are Moving – 24 Wochen Memories of Miss Moriarty Sun 10 July / Cinemobile / 18.15 Sun 10 July / Town Hall Studio / 18.30 2016 / Germany / 102min 2016 / Ireland / 65min

24 Weeks tells the story of cabaret performer Astrid who, six We Are Moving – Memories of Miss Moriarty is an intimate months pregnant, learns that her unborn child will be severely portrait of Joan Denise Moriarty, a visionary who overcame disabled. She and her husband Marcus have a choice, but little enormous odds by doggedly following her dream of bringing time. Astrid, usually strong in nature and with a witty answer ballet to every corner of Ireland. A pioneer of early 20th to everything, now feels lost and on her own. Ultimately, only century Irish dance, Joan Denise Moriarty dared to create a she who is bearing the child can make this weighty decision. uniquely Irish form of ballet inspired by her love of nature and What will she do? Who decides whether the child will have a Irish folklore. Her life’s work has been largely overlooked since life worth living? her death.

“An uncompromising, brave and “The incredible story of Joan Denise controversial effort from Germany Moriarty who fought tirelessly and and a huge contender for the big against the odds to bring ballet to the awards at this year’s Berlinale.” most remote corners of Ireland, including — The Hollywood News the North during the Troubles.”

Director Anne Zohra Berrached will attend. Director Claire Dix will attend.

Nominated for the Golden Bear, Berlinale 2016 Official selection: Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016

Presented in co-operation with Goethe-Institut Irland. SUNDAY 10JULY

Director Anne Zohra Berrached Cast Julie Jentsch, Bjarne Maedel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske Script Anne Zohra Berrached, Carl Gerber Director Claire Dix Producers Thomas Kufus, Melanie Berke, Tobias Buechner Producer Roisín Geraghty IC QA T+ QA T

booking 091 569777 93 5 – 10 July 2016 28th Galway Film Fleadh Awards Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 19.00

Feature Film Audience Awards

It’s been said that a film is not a film until it’s been seen by an audience. The Fleadh has always had a passionate outspoken and cineliterate following and we are proud that it is they who decide the award-winning titles each year. The Galway Film Fleadh will present the following awards for Feature Films

· Best Irish First Feature in association with Telegael · Best International First Feature · Best Irish Feature in association with Volta · Best International Feature · Best Irish Feature Documentary · Best International Feature Documentary in association with Chubb Insurance · Best Cinematograpy in an Irish Feature · Best Human Rights Feature in association with Teach Solais in association with Amnesty International

Short Film Awards

Oscar Qualifying Categories: Since 2011 the Fleadh has been recognised as a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards Short Film Category. Recipients of the James Horgan Award for Best Animation and the Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama will qualify for consideration.

· The James Horgan Award for Best Animation · The Best First Short Drama · The Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama in association with Mazars in association with Network Ireland Television · The Best Short Documentary Award · The Donal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography · The Don Quijote Award is awarded for best in a short film in association with the Irish Society animated short film of Cinematograhers (ISC) · The Award for Best Animated Sequence · The Best First Short Animation Award in a short film in association with Cartoon Saloon · The winners of the The One Minute Film Festival

The winner of The Pitching Award, The Bingham Ray New Talent Award in association with Magnolia Pictures, will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. In addition to these awards, Jim Sheridan will be presented with the Fleadh’s highest honour, The Galway Hooker. SUNDAY 10JULY

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The Bingham Ray New Talent Award in Association with Magnolia Pictures

Bingham Ray, throughout his career at October films, United Artists and Sidney Kimmel, always managed to block off the week to attend the Fleadh annually. From the early Claddagh Palace days, he witnessed our passion for film, drive and independent spirit, and recognising it as his own, became our greatest stalwart. Bingham gave so much of his time to mentoring filmmakers over the years at the Galway Film Fair, listening, advising, believing and encouraging. The Irish film community benefited hugely from Bingham’s wealth of knowledge across the complete spectrum of the film industry and the many friendships that he made along the way is a testament to his generosity in sharing his experience. The inaugural Bingham Ray New Talent Award was given to Gerard Barrett by Bingham’s daughters, Annabel and Becca, for Pilgrim Hill, which went on to worldwide success.

The Nominees are: Peter Foott (director, The Young Offenders), Seána Kerslake (actress, A Date for Mad Mary), Caoilfhionn Dunne (actress, In View), Tara Lee (actress, A Date for Mad Mary, Moon Dogs) SUNDAY 10JULY

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Closing Film Sanctuary

Sun 10 July / Town Hall Theatre / 20.30 arry and Sophie are in love. What could be more natural for them than 2016 / Ireland / 88min to want to be alone, together? They bribe the feckless Tom to book them Linto a hotel for an afternoon’s tryst and look forward to getting to know each other, like countless couples before them. But Larry and Sophie aren’t any couple – they both have intellectual disabilities and Tom is their care worker. By attempting to be intimate, they aren’t just breaking the rules – they’re breaking the law. While Larry and Sophie try to figure out their feelings, their future and how to use a condom, their friends from the training centre escape the not so watchful eye of Tom and go on a joyful rampage through Galway. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, Sanctuary is a truly subversive piece of cinema about two young people trying to be together, in a world doing everything to keep them apart.

Director Len Collin and cast will attend.

“A milestone film that is as entertaining and well-crafted Director Len Collin Cast Charlene Kelly, Kieran Coppinger, as it is destined to kickstart necessary debate about the SUNDAY 10JULY Robert Doherty, Frank Butcher, discrimination faced by people with intelectual disabilities” Paul Connelly, Valerie Egan, Michael Hayes, Patrick Becker, Emer Macken, Jennifer Cox In association with Script Christian O’Reilly Producer Edwina Forkin W FF C QAX T+

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Managing Director Information & Registration Print Manager Miriam Allen David Durkin, Aoife Gavin, Michael Besnard-Scott Programmer Caitriona Fitzpatrick Printers Gar O’Brien Shorts Selection iSupply Galway Festival Manager Celine Curtin, Diarmuid Russell, Transport Cathy O’Connor Paddy O’Connor, Dave Moran, Corporate Chauffeur Drive / City Taxis IFTA is delighted to support the Galway Film Fair Manager Nadine Katschmarek, Étain NíThuairisg, Box Office Manager Debbie McVey Yvonne Hennessy, Paddy Hayes Seóna Ní Chonghaile 2016 Galway Film Fleadh Fair Co-ordinators Volunteer Co-ordinator Fleadh TV Liz Quinn, Annette Maye, Eoin Butler Thornton Gréasán na Meán Nadine Katschmarek Masterclass Co-ordinator Box Office The Academy hosts a year-round calendar Out On Film & Music Film Programmer Brónagh Keys Marie Folan, Jack Gibbons, of learning and industry events for Members Michael Besnard-Scott Masterclass Facilitators Sarah Keary, Emer McMahon, Programming Team Mary Kate O’Flanagan, Kieron J. Walsh Jean Oldham, Annie McMahon, and industry: Paddy O’Connor, Michael Besnard-Scott Casting workshop Finian O’Gorman, Feilim Ó hAolain Hospitality John & Ros Hubbard Town Hall Bar Staff Masterclasses Paula Allen Town Hall Co-ordinator Helen Brennan, Fiona Collins Assistant Administrator Conor Healy Technicians David Durkin IT Co-ordinator Pete Ashton, Donal Nelson, Premieres & First Look Screenings Shorts Co-ordinators Shane Malone Susan Collins Ciarán Durkin, Eibh Collins Projectionists Accounts A Life on Screen Publicity / Press & PR Kieran Fitzgerald, Nick Hitchcox, Colin Gill John Collins Heather Mackey Programme Editor Fleadh Board Networking Events Social Media Co-ordinator Garrett Sholdice Kate O’Toole (Chair) Siún Ní Raghallaigh, Dominic Quinn Web Design / Programme Design T.C. Rice, Brendan McCaul, Steve Woods, Discussion Panels Events Co-ordinators Design Associates Redmond Morris David Moran, Conor Tuohy Cover Photograph: Elnur Amikishiyev, 123rf In Conversation with Series Women in Focus - Film & Television Thanks to our Friends Industry Breakfast Series McGinns Hop House / Hotel Meyrick / Lynskey Ryan Insurances / Majella & all the gang @ Galway Film Fleadh, City Taxis / Imperial Hotel / Ann Faherty @ Claddagh Jewellers / Deirdre Grandi @ Twice 36D Merchants Dock, Comedy Forum as Nice / Johnny & Dorothy Walsh @ Express Frames / Fahy Travel / Galway Rowing Club / Merchants Road, Galway Michael O’Grady @ Lime Restaurant / Tigh Chóilí / Mark Killoran Florists / President Michael Tel: +353 (0) 91 562200 Novel to Screen D. 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24 Weeks 93 H History’s Future 75 P Property of the State 31 Holding the Man 21 A A Dark Song 65 Hotel Dallas 70 R Rara 87 A Date for Mad Mary 61 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 28 Re|Fresh 55 A Poem Is A Naked Person 80 Rebel Rossa 41 A Song For You: I IFI Local Films for Local People: Revolutions 72 The Austin City Limits Story 28 Yet more glimpses of Galway 27 Absolution 55 Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And S Sanctuary 97 After ‘16 78 All The Music Has Disappeared 43 South 45 All Eyes and Ears 39 In America 91 Staid 76 Aloys 82 In View 43 Student Showcase 22 Armi Alive! 48 InnSæi – the Sea within 90 Summertime 39 Atlantic 45 Isonomia 52 Suntan 33 Author: The JT LeRoy Story 70 It’s Not Yet Dark 77 Awaiting 34 T The Alchemist Cookbook 82 J Jewel’s Catch One 21 The Automatic Hate 47 B Barash 67 The Commune 29 Barista 34 K Kiki 82 The Duel of Wine 29 Bobby Sands: 66 Days 57 Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land 74 The Girl King 74 Born and Reared 64 The Judas Iscariot Lunch 52 Brakes 62 L L’Accabadora 39 The Last King 27 Land of the Enlightened 53 The Midwife 87 C Cardboard Gangsters 83 Little Cinema Showcase 41 The Mine 36 Cheer Up 76 Little Men 26 The Plants 47 Collective:Unconscious 67 Lost in France 64 The Randomer 33 Crash and Burn 90 The Seige of Jadotville 81 Creative Control 19 M Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 23 The Wall 38 Creative England Shorts 59 Mom & Me 79 The War Against Women Moon Dogs 80 in Eastern Congo 52 D Dead Along The Way 30 My Friend From the Park 38 The Weather Inside 80 Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion 52 The Young Offenders 63 Deconstructing Dani García 90 N New Irish Shorts 1 35 These Daughters of Mine 87 Diving into the Unknown 53 New Irish Shorts 2 37 Those Who Jump 36 New Irish Shorts 3: Tiger Raid 47 E Eyes of a Thief 38 Human Rights Documentaries 48 Twice Shy 62 New Irish Shorts 4 49 F Fire at Sea 23 New Irish Shorts 5 69 U Uncle Howard 26 Fís na Fuiseoige 52 New Irish Shorts 6 71 Food & Shelter 24 New Irish Shorts 7: W Way Out West 25 Fukushima, Mon Amour 24 Short Documentaries 85 We Are Moving – Further Beyond 92 New Irish Shorts 8: Memories of Miss Moriarty 93 Short Animation 88 Weiner 30

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